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“Yo quito se dablo enchalada porquesa in quinto minuto! But I don't speak spanish.”
Neil Simon
“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 abscess.”
Dave Barry
“Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.”
Bill Bryson
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
Walt Disney
“People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.”
Salma Hayek
“As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
Samuel Johnson
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.”
King Charles V
“President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.”
Dennis Miller
“An Argentine is an Italian who speaks Spanish and thinks he is British.”
Anonymous
“QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay."
When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. --Juan Smith”
Ambrose Bierce
“Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.”
John Masefield
“Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.”
Shakira
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
Oliver Goldsmith
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