290 Spanish Quotes for You to Enjoy

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. Martin Amis

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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco. Martin Garrix

Guitar Like Years Eight Spanish Played

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. Mary Doria Russell

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I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, 'That's true, and I have two more eyes than you.' I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I'm twice as good as you. Matthew Gray Gubler

Saying Good Me You Class Eyes Better Remember Back Kid More Throwing Head True Like Calling Felt Said Than Orange Spanish Twice Four Two

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages. Matthew Morrison

People Speak Am Lot Impressed Different Spanish Little Languages Who

I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people. Megan Nicole

I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's your favorite Spanish mystery writer?' I'm totally flat-footed. I feel that I'm under-read when it comes to foreign writers. Michael Connelly

Me Books Favorite Totally Mystery Writer Writers Touring Feel Foreign Get Unfortunate Spain Spanish Asked Your Media Thing

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak. Michael Korda

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My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio producer after World War II. Michael Portillo

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I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point. Michael Portillo

Speak Language Indeed Ancestry Point Up Spanish

I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that. Michael Trevino

I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called 'face,' and it was a very heavily Latino culture - it's black and Latino - and they used to call me 'cara,' which means face in Spanish, so I started putting 'cara' on everything: hats, jackets. Michelle Visage

Me Culture World Walk Black Face Everything Latino Hats Putting Category Involved Underground Call Known Got Ballroom Very Jackets Which Spanish Means Used Started

Spanish women are so sexy. The way they move and talk drives me crazy! Mikaela Hoover

Me Crazy Women Way Sexy Drives Talk Women Are Move Spanish

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. Moby

Good Uncle Argentina Terrible Hearing Up Very Grew Spanish

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street. Mona Simpson

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I know I'm different. Even when I think about an acting career, there are so many limited roles to begin with. I have the ability to be Spanish, Indian, Italian, black, Persian. What roles do I see that compliment that? Mya

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. Neil Peart

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One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. Nelson A. Miles

God Government Man Law Before Hundred Hundred Years Enslavement Indian Plymouth Pilgrims Years Accord American Spanish Landed Decree

I speak some Spanish. I would love to go make a movie in Spanish. I'd love to be in an Almodovar movie or an Inarritu. Nick Kroll

Love Speak Would Some Make Go Movie Spanish

The way you pronounce words the Puerto Rico way, it's not really global for music. Colombians speak some of the best Spanish in the world. So having a Colombian next to me every time I write makes my music more international. Nicky Jam

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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language. Odette Annable

Home Family Speak Language First Half Since Learned Spanish English

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any! Olivia Williams

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