Top 100 In Spanish Quotes
#1. There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word "exit" which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :"No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success
Pablo
#2. The way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English.
Homero Blancas
#3. There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.
Douglas Preston
#4. dream with the little devils for dream with the little angels', a common saying in Spanish. I instantly
Nina Lautner
#5. In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.
Prince Royce
#7. I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Viggo Mortensen
#8. Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.
Juan Pablo Galavis
#9. I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
F. Sionil Jose
#10. Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
Shakira
#11. Ooh. Maybe he'll fuck you in Spanish. Can you call me while it's happening? God, I want to hear that.
Tina Reber
#12. The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
Prince Royce
#13. Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.
Junot Diaz
#14. In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.
Prince Royce
#16. That got her up on stage pretty quick, and she sang a song, which was in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about, except she seemed to be singing it mainly to Sharisse and it had a word that sounded like "poota" in it a lot.
Dave Barry
#17. I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown food truck, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a fantastic bowl of ramen in the East Village.
Marcus Samuelsson
#18. I think it's pretty dynamic. There's a lot of energy there and life, and you'll have women dressed in their traditional African dress when they come, and you have people from all over the place, and some people have headphones on because they're listening in Spanish.
Michael Emerson
#19. I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.
Deborah Levy
#20. I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
George Crumb
#21. People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.
Thalia
#22. I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
Zoe Saldana
#23. When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and ... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
Gloria Estefan
#24. When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I'd memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.
Ben Lerner
#27. Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
La India
#28. Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
W.S. Merwin
#29. I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.
Jessye Norman
#30. I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.
Karen Russell
#31. I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.
Greg Behrendt
#32. During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing.
Kevin Renner
#33. Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw
John Irving
#35. 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
#36. There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!
Torrey DeVitto
#37. 'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.
Luis Suarez
#38. Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.
Juanes
#39. Rose turned to me. "Did she just speak to him in Spanish?" "Yeah," I said. "She only speaks to him in Spanish, actually. It was in some parenting book she read about kids learning a second language.
Richelle Mead
#40. Naturally Teseo had a joke about all the government promises to increase housing construction: "If there were no future tense in Spanish, Castro would be speechless.
Regina Anavy
#41. From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
Ailyn Perez
#42. But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States government has - don't come, it's dangerous. You will be immediately deported. That's literally what it says in Spanish.
Mark Krikorian
#43. In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
Sandra Cisneros
#44. I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
Prince Royce
#45. Mira, I wanna tell you something. I ain't got time to tell you what I should've when I had time, but I dig you a whole lot." "Deeg you?" she asked, puzzled. I explained to her what it meant and told her that I would write it to her in Spanish and say it like it was.
Piri Thomas
#46. I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
Alicia Machado
#47. As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
Thalia
#48. A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
Katharine Lee Bates
#49. And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.
Juan Goytisolo
#50. Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in New World colonization and be willing to accept shift work. Fluency in Spanish an asset.Some travel involved
Christopher Columbus
#51. I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
Sandra Cisneros
#52. Grassyasses." "Grassyasses?" everyone said in unison. "That means many thanks in Spanish," Mr. Farrington said with a swollen chest.
Joy Avery
#53. I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.
Moises Arias
#54. CONJUGATE THIS:
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#55. My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.
Paloma Picasso
#56. It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.
Ana De La Reguera
#57. In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
Wences Casares
#58. When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.
Eiza Gonzalez
#59. As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
Erik Estrada
#60. My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.
Esperanza Spalding
#61. I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
George Strait
#62. The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'.
Christopher Hitchens
#63. She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#64. So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.
Tom Cole
#66. I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.
Cheech Marin
#67. I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.
Will Ferrell
#68. Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
Prince Royce
#69. [Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.
Enrique Iglesias
#70. When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.
David Dewhurst
#71. My name is Lithuanian. My father was born there, and he gave me a cool name. It's the Lithuanian national flower - looks like a weed, a little bit like me! - although in Spanish it means a 'route' or 'road,' and in Swedish it means 'square'. So, not quite so cool in those countries.
Ruta Gedmintas
#72. I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to ... people who mean something special to us.
James De La Vega
#73. Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.
Juanes
#74. My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
Isabel Allende
#75. He slowly turned around. "What is love? In English." I raised my brows. "Love, in English, is love?" "What is it in Spanish?" I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. "Amore?" He shook his head ever so slightly. "No. Love in Spanish is you.
Karina Halle
#76. She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.
Kelly Moran
#77. I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
Joel Siegel
#78. So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.
Jon Secada
#79. I'd spoken with Milo in Spanish only enough to know that he wasn't as comfortable with it as I was. There were plenty of Latinos who would consider Milo's lack of fluency a personal insult. A cultural lobotomy.
Rick Riordan
#80. Writing has such a power for expressionEven when you can't talk with no one else in the whole world you can talk to your paper. Your feelings whether good, bad or indifferent. We call it despojo in Spanish, which means to be able to get rid of all this agony, weight inside of you. It brings clarity.
Piri Thomas
#81. March brought the news of Frederick's marriage. He and Dolores wrote; she in Spanish-English, as was but natural, and he with little turns and inversions of words which proved how far the idioms of his bride's country were infecting him.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#82. I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
Isabel Allende
#83. I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.
Archie Carr
#84. I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.
Luis Fortuno
#85. His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
Elisabeth Elliot
#86. 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.
Andrea Navedo
#87. In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin
#88. Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish."
"Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.
Sidney Halston
#89. To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.
Thalia
#90. What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
Sandra Cisneros
#91. I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#92. The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
Enrique Iglesias
#93. I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian.
Stjepan Hauser
#94. I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.
Ana Ortiz
#95. I smiled at my champion, but he just shook his head and muttered more words in Spanish. I was pretty sure he either called me a beautiful tropical flower or a raving lunatic. Sometimes I get my nouns mixed up.
Jenny B. Jones
#96. I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.
Felipe Esparza
#97. I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.
Prince Royce
#98. When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.
Michelle Bachelet
#99. Stop," a woman shouted. Everyone turned to see someone in a power suit and sensible pumps stomping out of the trees toward me. It was not Raquel. Raquel was running after her, swearing rapidly in Spanish and trying to grab Anne-Whatever Whatever.
"Wow, you are so not invited," I said.
Kiersten White
#100. So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.
Jay Leno
