Quotes of Spain - somelinesforyou

“ In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess. ”

- Dave Barry

“ We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration. ”

- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“ We are a cult in most places, and I like that. Japan has a lot of love to give the Bluetones. When we go to Spain, France and Germany, it's not big budget swanky time! ”

- Dave Mason

“ I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain. ”

- Sarah Brightman

“ I was playing with a soccer team in Spain until I broke my foot-badly. That's when I started seriously getting into acting. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. ”

- Erica Jong

“ I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”

- Peter Porter

“ When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. ”

- Luis Figo

“ Spain, a country of 41 million people, boasts a greater Gross Domestic Product than the GDP of all of the 22 Arab countries combined! Despite the presence of oil in many Arab countries, the region remains under-developed. ”

- Larry Elder

“ The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is… more merciful than a prolonged struggle. ”

- Charles Clark

“ It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown. Every culture breaks down. Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire… ”

- Jerry Brown

“ For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. ”

- Hans Konig

“ My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while… you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back. ”

- Antonio Banderas
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