Latin Quotes - Page 32

• I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It was the place lots of DJs came to get used and rare records. It had a lot of jazz, funk, Latin and seventies rock.

  Miho Hatori

  Unique, Jazz, Sometimes

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• One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, May, Speak

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.

  Dylan Moran

  Teacher, Eye, Men

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• They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.

  Alex Abreu

  America, Issues, Talking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

  Thomas Sowell

  Media, Leader, Style

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Latino, Filmmaker, Right Now

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Ideas, Roots

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• I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

  Nelly

  School, Kids, Interesting

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• I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.

  Bart Millard

  Night, Thinking, Bed

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• An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

  Martin Feldstein

  Usa, America, Asia

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• Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Writing, India And Pakistan

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sibling, Thinking, Giving

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• Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus," he chanted. "Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem." "You just...finished the prophesy,"Rachael stammered. "-An oath to keep with a final breath/And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. How did you-" "I know those lines." Jason winced and put his hands to his temples. "I don't know how, but I KNOW that prophecy." "In Latin, no less," Drew called out. "Handsome AND smart.

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Doors, Hands

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• On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

  Umberto Eco

  Italian, Reflection, Style

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Witty, Regret

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• The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Joy, Anxiety

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• Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.

  John Muir

  Science, Years, Should Have

  John Muir (2006). “Essential Muir”, Heyday

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Military, Real, Past

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• Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Cancer, Mean, Blood

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• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Voice, People, Vox Populi

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• Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Greek, Quiver, Quotations

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• In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Mean, Playing Games

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

  Seneca the Younger

  Stars, History, Earth

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• While there's life, there is hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hope, Life Is Short, Ouch

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Positivity

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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