Latin Quotes - Page 22

• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  America, Giving, Cinema

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Speak English, America, Use

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• The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Greek, Taught

  Schools and Universities on the Continent (1868)

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• When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

  Pliny the Elder

  Rodents, Littles, Collapse

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• It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

  Lord Acton

  Fate, Men, America

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Lord Acton's opening statement of his speech on February 28, 1877; later quoted in "The History of Freedom and Other Essays" edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 1907.

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• And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

  Mark Haddon

  Stupid, Mean, Men

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• If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

  A. A. Milne

  Said, Respectable, Untrue

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.52, The Floating Press

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• I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, School, Eight

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

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• What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

  James Joyce

  Ideas, Dying, Hospice

  James Joyce (1946). “Ulysses”, Modern Library

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Opposites, White, People

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• The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

  Anthony Horowitz

  School, Italian, Two

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• By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be “of Venus” ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can’t blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doctors, Long, People

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

  Anais Nin

  Expression, Feelings, Important

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• Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.

  Frantz Fanon

  Religious, Black And White, Years

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• Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Verbs, Tables

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.112, Penguin

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• See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

  Kirsten Miller

  Crazy, Phrases, Succeed

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• Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  America, Europe, Littles

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

  Rita Ora

  Descent, Mistaken

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• Only that which is well done is quickly done.

  Augustus

  Done, Wells, Well Done

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• Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

  Augustus

  Cautious, Commanders

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• The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

  Timothy Leary

  Mean, Ties, Jackets

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.91, Ronin Publishing

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• Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

  Regis Debray

  Moving, Marine, America

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• The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

  Gore Vidal

  Roots, Democracy, Want

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

  Charles Clarke

  Matter, Way, Study

  "Clarke Denies Medieval History Slur". www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2003.

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• I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

  Mauricio Cienfuegos

  America, Leaving, Los Angeles

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