Quotes About Latins

#1. The English language is a rich verbal tapestry woven together from the tongues of the Greeks, the Latins, the Angles, the Klaxtons, the Celtics, and many more other ancient peoples, all of whom had severe drinking problems." Let

Steven Pinker

#2. Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

John Leguizamo

#3. In their death as in their life the Latins are more socially disposed than we, and the graves in their cemeteries almost always touch each other, they are so closely crowded together.

Willa Cather

#4. I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

Mekhi Phifer

#5. Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

Oscar Hijuelos

#6. We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Cesar Romero

#7. Latins are into clowns.

Shia Labeouf

#8. He was given a ranch, and two lovely mistresses. 'Imagine, at thirty, I was put out to stud. And we Latins are such drowsy pigs that I almost fell for it.

Warren Eyster

#9. Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Marlene Dietrich

#10. As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

Billy Williams

#11. We Latins are known for jabbering on.

Eduardo Galeano

#12. I'm happy and I'm focused on my work ... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

Eiza Gonzalez

#13. The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will
one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?

Carl Sagan

#15. To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.

Theodor Mommsen

#16. After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.
- Saphira

Christopher Paolini

#17. I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

Judy Greer

#18. The messages a woman receives from modern North American culture are contradictory; she needs a job for fulfillment but should be home with her children; she is more than her looks, but she had better wear makeup and stay thin; she has every opportunity men have but only on men's terms.

Janell L. Carroll

#19. There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#20. Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Honore De Balzac

#21. I can talk to him," Rhys offered. "He needs to know you still love him."
"No," Rhi said loudly, her face once more a mask of indifference.
Rhys bowed his head in acceptance. It was the same answer each time he'd asked through the centuries. "As you wish.

Donna Grant

#22. I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Maxine Kumin

#23. Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

Caroline Kepnes

#24. He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

N. Scott Momaday

#25. The division in our lives was curious. Downstairs there was pure convention; upstairs pure intellect. But there was no connection between them.

Virginia Woolf

#26. Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Jonathan Nolan

#27. Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Karl Kraus

#28. And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be
when most likely it was all a very queer mistake? ... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent.

Carson McCullers