Uruguay's Quotes

#1. I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Mario Benedetti

#2. Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.

John Helm

#3. The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#4. The shimmering bubbles of happiness that had been floating all around me popped one by one, the whole breathlessness of our summer becoming nothing more than old soap on a stained industrial carpet.

Heather Demetrios

#5. When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

James Balog

#6. Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A good slice of the settler population of that region were men who'd been given a choice between being shipped off to the New World in leg-irons and spending the rest of their lives in English prisons.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Jose Mujica

#8. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

Hugo Chavez

#9. Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

Jose Mujica

#10. It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

Luis Suarez

#11. The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

Tabare Vazquez

#12. In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

Nicholas Negroponte

#13. After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

Peter Sagal

#14. Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

Jose Mujica

#15. Eleven growers from Colorado to Germany have jumped at the chance to bid on pot farming licenses in Uruguay.

Anonymous

#16. Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter".

John Grisham

#17. There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Luis Suarez

#18. If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.

Peter L. Bernstein

#19. I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Tabare Vazquez

#20. We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde.

Tom Robbins

#21. My jaw dropped. Forget balls, this guy had boulders.

Jus Accardo

#22. Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

Rashida Jones

#23. The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.

Luis Suarez

#24. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.

Rachel Caine

#25. The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

Pele

#26. There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

Juan Campodonico

#27. Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

Nicholas Negroponte

#28. Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.

David Baldacci

#29. I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

Luis Suarez

#30. Aconitine is so powerful that Nazi scientists found it useful as an ingredient for poisoned bullets.

Amy Stewart

#31. I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

Bitsie Tulloch

#32. You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way

Groucho Marx

#33. That fucking better not be you in the goddamn elevator, Adam. Maintenance just called and said some asshole stopped the elevator and guess what? They started out on my floor. Are you fucking the client in the goddamn elevator five minutes after I told you not to fuck the fucking client?

Lexi Blake

#34. By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Stephen Kinzer

#35. If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.

Jose Mujica

#36. Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Ondino Viera

#37. Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

Dave Barry

#38. Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people ... so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

Kathy Ireland