Latin Quotes - Page 28

• Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

  Don Rickles

  Uncles, Names, After Hours

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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

  Rachel Caine

  Smart, Glasses, People

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.149, Penguin

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• A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.

  Carrie Fisher

  New York, Guy, Rooms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Soul, Tea, Stuff

  On Nothing (1908) "On Tea"

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• Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Horse, Sorry

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I shall not completely die.

  Horace

  Dies

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• Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

  C. P. Scott

  Funny, Business, Media

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• A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

  Jim Butcher

  Stupid, Kids, Two

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.86, Penguin

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• The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Lying, Zest

  "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20

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• If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

  Ira Gershwin

  Guy, Greek, Misunderstood

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• The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, School, Our Society

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• Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Queens, Color, Greek

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• Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

  Jerry Scott

  Men, Language

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• In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Mother, Believe

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• But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Italian, Vegetables

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• I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

  Rosie Perez

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• The fast growing markets - the BRICS and Next Eleven - are the key. The next billion consumers are not going to come from the US or Western Europe - they are coming from Asia, Latin America and Africa. Formula One follows our strategy: fast growing markets, data, and digital. All those three things Formula One has. And it involves a stunning array of companies. Now that doesn't mean there can't be more.

  Martin Sorrell

  Mean, America, Keys

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Greek, Three

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?

  Robert Greene

  Greek, Degrees, Language

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, America, Facts

  Source: www.madre.org

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• For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in country after country after country, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, overthrowing elected governments and backing the rise of military dictatorships.

  Allan Nairn

  Country, Military, Government

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dark, Dust, Voice

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.165, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in Latin. You don't want to go into it after, so drop it." He said, "No, I can't. I'm going to get bullied at school because all my mates are in there." There's a prime example of why no one cooks at school. You're studying Latin, you've got no interest.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Couple, School, Years

  Source: variety.com

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• From 16 to 26, no one really knows what they want to do for the rest of their life at that age. Latin's not f - ing one of them.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Age, Want, Knows

  Source: variety.com

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• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, America, Disease

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