Spanish Quotes · Page 20

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

— Michael Lewis

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

— Eiza Gonzalez

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

— Eva Green

“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex.

— Kristen Schaal

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

— Paula DeAnda

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

— Mike Myers

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

— Min Jin Lee

We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."…

— Sandra Cisneros

People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising.…

— Kevin O'Leary

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different…

— Chow Yun-Fat

I'm in awe of people who speak other languages not just fluently but near-native. I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese and I'm…

— Vick Hope

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family -…

— Cary Fukunaga

From my personal observations, the Spanish style of play, with a large number of passes, is somewhat similar to the Brazilian one.

— Fred

The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the…

— Michael J. Knowles

“—Perdóname por esto, pero ya no lo puedo soportar más. Él nunca me vio de la manera en la que te ve…

— Lolo Mayaya

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting…

— Erik Pevernagie

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of…

— David Lambert

“Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come…

— Xavi

“Earn in France. Learn French. Earn in Germany. Learn German. Earn in Spain. Learn Spanish. Earn in Italy. Learn Italian. Earn in…

— Dipti Dhakul

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At…

— A. A. Gill

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get…

— Alexander McCall Smith

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

— Aymeric Laporte

“Ooh. Maybe he’ll fuck you in Spanish. Can you call me while it’s happening? God, I want to hear that.”

— Tina Reber

One thing I wish I'd been told in school is that my language is valid.

— Jason Reynolds

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

— Matthew Morrison

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

— Edward Gibbon

I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

— Rakul Preet Singh

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

— Henry Darrow

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

— John Dryden

“Jamie,” I said, suddenly thinking of something, “do you speak German?” “Eh? Oh, aye,”

— Diana Gabaldon

“You sang me spanish lullaby's, the sweetest sadness in your eyes, clever trick”

— Fine Frenzy

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

— Masha Gessen

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

— Odette Annable

You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn…

— Till Lindemann

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

— Karol G

“I speak Spanish like I chew spinach—like it’s dried bubble gum stuck underneath a park bench.”

— Jarod Kintz

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

— Ethan Zuckerman