Latin Quotes - Page 25

• I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Blood, Persons

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking on more of those roles of homemaking and child rearing - it's an important area that we still haven't got right. I do worry; it's not just in the United States, it's also in parts of Latin America.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Men, America

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.

  Anthony Minghella

  Dream, Dirty, Fighting

  "Fictional character: The Storyteller". TV Series "The Storyteller" ("A Story Short", 1988), www.imdb.com. (1987 - ).

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• Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Reality, America, Voice

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• One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

  Adam Morris

  Culture, Literature, American Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  Ednita Nazario

  Country, Rocks, Style

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• There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

  John Leguizamo

  Stars, People, Planning

  "John Leguizamo: 'Freak,' and proud of it". edition.cnn.com. November 2, 1998.

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• As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

  Scott McCloud

  Book, Pigs, Speak

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• Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Casts, Has Beens, Dies

  "Fictional character: Dieter Wieland". "The Wave", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

  Sam Abell

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Greek, Doubt, Ornaments

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.128, Stanford University Press

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• When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, School, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

  Havelock Ellis

  Running, Art, Feet

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of Dryden, and Pope, and Gray! Our summer of English poetry, like the Greek and Latin before it, seems well advanced towards its fall, and laden with the fruit and foliage of the season, with bright autumnal tints, but soon the winter will scatter its myriad clustering and shading leaves, and leave only a few desolate and fibrous boughs to sustain the snow and rime, and creak in the blasts of age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.

  Jack Vance

  Writing, Doctors, Mirrors

  Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Home, America

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• Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

  Evan Esar

  Children, Growing Up, Past

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• Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression, and alienation which prevails in Latin America. This has caused concern among the beneficiaries and defenders of capitalist society, who no longer can depend on what used to be - whether consciously or unconsciously - one of their mainstays.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Attitude, Order, America

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “Teología de la liberación”

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• I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Philosophy, Civilization, Greek

  "O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Jonathan Valania, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

  Torrey DeVitto

  Dancing, Spain, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

  Tara Brabazon

  Wikipedia, Needs, Site

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• Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

  Adam Morris

  Authenticity, Tradition, Expecting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, "to bind." To bind with rope. And that's all it means.

  James Callis

  Mean, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.

  Ryan Guzman

  Sexy, Keys, Etc

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  America, Black, Independence

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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