Top 1200 Spanish And English Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

Actually, between Colombian and Mexican Spanish, there's not a huge difference, but it is a different accent.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out very clearly. The English and the foreign are still all too inclined to refer to the island of Great Britain as 'England'. But at no time have they ever customarily referred to an English empire.

I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias.

I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

In Spanish, we have a saying: 'The woman and the frying pan belong in the kitchen.' Ohhhh, I hate it!

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

Urban music in the Spanish-language is a force to be reckoned with, there's truly something for everyone in it.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!

Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.

I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.

I love Duolingo. I'm learning Spanish on it, and it's such a good way to pass time on flights or the bus.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

I love all Balvin songs, and 'Mi Gente' and 'Despacito' got No. 1 all over the world in Spanish.

I prefer to play in Spain than in the Premiership. Spanish football is more like my qualities.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.

And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

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

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned to speak Spanish??? TooDamn-Funky: Yeah! u go for 2 weeks talk nothing but Spanish u come back fluent. Kicker5535: ...???? TooDamn-Funky: Well this is like a guy immersion program! Kicker5525: So...what. I'm going 2 b fluent in GUY? TooDamn-Funky: Exactly! u will c what they talk about alone. U will c how they r with each other. U will c how they THINK!! AND WHEN IT'S DONE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE A GUY GUIDE BOOK!! Kicker5525: U r deranged.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.