Spain Quotes - Page 4

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreigner. I missed Australia, and I can't tell why. It's just this is what I grew up with and this is the things I wanted to make meaning of in my life.

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain.

The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.