Latin Quotes

• People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

  

  John McWhorter
  • People
  • Question
  • Latin

• You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Language
  • Smart

• What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Time
  • Food
  • Chinese

• I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• You can't put tits and ass on the marquee!...Why not?...Because it's dirty and vulgar, that's why not!... Titties are dirty and vulgar?...Okay, we'll compromise. How about Latin? Gluteus maximus, pectoralis majors nightly...That's alright, that's clean, class with ass, I'll buy it...Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Why
  • Dirty
  • Latin

• I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Remember
  • Latin

• When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.

  

  Frankie J. Alvarez
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.

  

  Dermot Healy
  • Work
  • Bible
  • Greek

• This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Great
  • Baseball
  • Deal

• 'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna

  

  Agatha Christie
  • School
  • Education
  • Latin

• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  

  Lin Biao
  • World
  • America
  • Latin

• I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Spanish
  • Latin

• 'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.

  

  Lauren Velez
  • Money
  • Done
  • Soul

• My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents love to dance. They love to throw parties and dance, so there was a lot Latin music in the house.

  

  Cyrille Aimee
  • Music
  • Mother
  • House

• I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.

  

  Joan Smalls
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• Since its inception, the American nation has had on its official seal the following motto: 'e pluribus unum,' which in Latin means, 'from the many, one.' That would change dramatically if Puerto Rico were to become a state.

  

  Anibal Acevedo Vila
  • American
  • Latin

• Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Women
  • Real
  • Trouble

• Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Latin

• Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Trust
  • Latin
  • Greek

• Cuba, for example, is a vanguard outpost, an outpost which overlooks the extremely broad stretches of the economically distorted world of Latin America. Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America.

  

  Che Guevara
  • World
  • America
  • Light

• My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

  

  Alfonso Soriano
  • People
  • Latin

• I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Good
  • Latin

• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

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