#spanish

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#choose #french #french literature #la #literature

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

#art school #brain #draw #fluent #go

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#comfortable #energy #english-speaking #expressing #feeling

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. ↗

— George Benson

#greatest #guitar #guitar player #me #player

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

— Henry Darrow

#children #how #i #regret #spanish

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#everything #mexican #really #spanish

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. ↗

— William Bligh

#anywhere #class #common #degree #lower

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#growing #growing up #harlem #latino #spanish

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#argue #called #career #english #entire

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker. ↗

— America Ferrera

#angeles #because #born #enough #how