Menzo Spanish Quotes

Sandwich Spanish will have you speaking and understanding Spanish with ease, using native-like pronunciation, and demonstrating culturally appropriate behaviors. You will be ready to take that vacation or live and thrive among the world's Spanish speaking societies! ~ Carol Ann George PhD

I bet you don't have to be Spanish to be the Spanish Inquisition," said Adam. "I bet it's like Scottish eggs or American hamburgers. It just has to look Spanish. We've just got to make it look Spanish. Then everyone would know it's the Spanish Inquisition. ~ Terry Pratchett

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning. ~ Juanes

I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot. ~ Scotty McCreery

With the rich and mighty, always a little patience. ~ Spanish Proverb

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~ Spanish Proverb

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. ~ George Crumb

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us. ~ Helen Vendler

Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages. ~ Jay Leno

More grows in the garden, than the gardener knows he has planted ~ Spanish Proverb

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English. ~ Sandra Cisneros

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. ~ Isabel Allende

When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and ... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish. ~ Gloria Estefan

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish. ~ Moises Arias

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on. ~ Eva Longoria

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. ~ Adam Sandler

I would love to do film in Spanish. ~ Genesis Rodriguez

All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them. ~ David Archuleta

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive. ~ Jose Garces

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish. ~ Jessica Alba

He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation. ~ Kelley Armstrong

Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams. ~ Tom Douglas

I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all. ~ Becky G

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!! ~ Michael Palin

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit. ~ Tyler Posey

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is. ~ Bobby Bonilla

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness. ~ Geraldo Rivera

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. ~ Tia Carrere

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both. ~ Jessica Sanchez

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have. ~ Thalia

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. ~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king. ~ John Smith

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language. ~ Miguel

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics. ~ John Fogerty

I understand Spanish better than I speak it. ~ Julian Castro

There is nothing intrinsic in the English language that made it attain such prominence. It is far from easy to learn. (A recent study found that it takes much longer for an infant to learn English than, for example, Spanish; the world would indeed have been better off if Spanish had become the universal language.) ~ Minae Mizumura

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. ~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment. ~ Sol Luckman

The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English. ~ Prince Royce

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish. ~ Viggo Mortensen

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German. ~ Lawrence Welk

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. ~ Roger Waters

I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs. ~ Enrique Iglesias

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months. ~ Cheech Marin

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics. ~ Cam Newton

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages. ~ Matthew Morrison

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language. ~ Marc Anthony

I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying. ~ Daniel Tosh

And the ... ' [Mulder] stumbled several times, making [Scully] smile, before he managed, 'Sangre Viento?'
He winced when he heard himself; his Spanish was still lousy. ~ Charles Grant

I make the best Spanish omelettes in the world, but I won't tell you the recipe! ~ Hrithik Roshan

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish. ~ Cheech Marin

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. ~ Les Baxter

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish. ~ Cheech Marin

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. ~ Edward Burnett Tylor

I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records. ~ Natalie Cole

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. ~ Moby

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. ~ Federica Montseny

One of the first things to understand was how people knew what language to speak to whom. Where I've lived in the American Southwest, choosing to speak English or Spanish based on how someone looks is risky. If you try English and they don't speak it, you can switch to Spanish if you know it. But if you start with Spanish, you might offend: 'You don't think I speak English?' This can be the case if you're Anglo, even if you speak Spanish very well and just heard the other person speaking Spanish. When I described such an scenario to Indians, they couldn't relate - to them, choosing the wrong language wasn't embarrassing or politically charged. Or so they said. ~ Michael Erard

I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway. ~ Karen Russell

Esperanza means hope in Spanish. ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home. ~ Valerie Cruz

What is the Spanish word for wife? Esposa.
What is the Spanish word for handcuffs? Esposas.
That's not a coincidence. ~ Peter Rogers

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. ~ W.S. Merwin

Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of 'Mary Jane' for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember. ~ Mark Forsyth

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

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago. ~ Rinko Kikuchi

Not only did the Apaches survive the Spanish attacks, but amazingly, the attacks served to make them even stronger. When the Spanish attacked them, the Apaches became even more decentralized and even more difficult to conquer. When the Spanish destroyed their villages, the Apaches might have surrendered if the villages had been crucial to their society. But they weren't. Instead, the Apaches abandoned their old houses and became nomads. (Try to catch us now.) ~ Ori Brafman

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties. ~ Anton Du Beke

I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it. ~ Paula Garces

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

I'd spoken with Milo in Spanish only enough to know that he wasn't as comfortable with it as I was. There were plenty of Latinos who would consider Milo's lack of fluency a personal insult. A cultural lobotomy. ~ Rick Riordan

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English. ~ America Ferrera

The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish--parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing. ~ Ed Morales

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. ~ Federica Montseny

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and ... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic. ~ Cote De Pablo

I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us. ~ Gareth Bale

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet. ~ Suzanne Fields

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas. ~ Julie Gonzalo

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music. ~ Becky G

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. ~ Antonio Banderas

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish. ~ David Hewson

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. ~ Junot Diaz

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else. ~ Kate Del Castillo

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. ~ Dave Barry

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks. ~ Thalia

Pyrenean hemorrhagic fever or PHF," Riese told them, her voice registering fear. "Some are calling it the new Spanish flu, others the red death because of the way the infected's blood oozes from every orifice. Except, unlike the Spanish flu, this one's spreading much, much faster." Anders ~ James D. Prescott

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish! ~ John Sununu

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there. ~ Julie Gonzalo

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin. ~ Prince Royce

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful. ~ Ed Asner

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

I learned French before I learned Spanish. ~ Eva Longoria

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish. ~ Steven Wright

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish. ~ Lydia Leonard

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. ~ Elie Wiesel

Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish. ~ Eva Longoria

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best. ~ Jencarlos Canela