Latin Quotes

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.

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.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

I shall not completely die.

One Sallow does not make Summer.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust we shall return.

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

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

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

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made.

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).