Latin Quotes
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My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.
Sandra Cisneros
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In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U.S. government.
Evo Morales
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The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
Eugene H. Peterson
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That is from a legal viewpoint what is technically referred to in the Latin as de minimis” and, in the equally technical language of common sense, as “batshit crazy."
Barry W. Lynn
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There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.
Ben Aaronovitch
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It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.
Eva Mendes
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I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
Tricia Helfer
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound
