#spanish

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ↗

— King Charles V

#german #god #horse #i #italian

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

#else #english #film #filmmakers #good

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#boy #children #entire #eyes #feel

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#collected #england #ever #food #money

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#because #began #found #germany #i

If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#anarchism #come #comrades #could #countries

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#comprehend #i #i do #other #parts

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#english football #few #few things #football #how