Asking Quote by Archie Carr

“In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself.”

— George Orwell

“The iguana room of the Jardin des Plantes, with its illuminated cases, where dozing reptiles are hidden among branches and rocks and sand of…

— Italo Calvino

“We are woken gently at three in the morning and told that we need to leave. Guided by the light of the stars rather…

— Marco Lupis

“His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and…

— David Edmonds

It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I…

— Camilo Jose Cela

I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language. They are under an English…

— Calvin Coolidge

“The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards’…

— Malcolm Lowry

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon…

— Thomas Reid

“Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the…

— Victor Villaseñor

“Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.”

— Nabokov Vladimir

“—Debe de ser difícil ser sacerdote con ese carácter tuyo —sonrió ella. —El voto de obediencia pesa una tonelada, Nuria, pero jamás he cuestionado…

— Isabel Allende

“He fidgets. Thinks. Observes his fellow passengers. Judges everyone, in the traditional Filipino sport of justifying both personal and shared insecurities.”

— Miguel Syjuco