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“It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic.”

Ifs Knows Littles Names Bits Half Magic Wind Travel Little Bit Dragons Far Away Spain Castles Darling Groovy

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.”

Years Book Lasts Just One Translate Spain

Author:Larry Elder

“Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.”

Way Feels Bigs Parent Born Roots South France Spain

Author:Jean Reno

“Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.”

People Speak Five Atheist Italian Spain Cathedrals Explorers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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.”

Littles Sometimes Bits Change Common Talking Example Couple Little Bit Folks Spain Verbs Adjectives Common Things I'm Back Spanish And English

Author:Antonio Banderas

“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.”

Important Different Country Left Language Change Decision Lifestyle Factors Staying Spain Barcelona Madrid

Author:Luis Figo

“The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.”

People Thinking Stills Stuff Term Cooking Everyday Restaurants Disappointed Expecting Chef Spain Coming Back Fundraising

Author:Sally Schneider

“There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Remember Life Is Night Morning Hell Wall Drink Late Paid Bills Rounds Get Up Bottles Spain Jars Hangover Nightlife Day Night

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.”

Way Self Light Government Night Left Late Tyranny Uplifting Knees Guidance Anarchy Tyrants Educate Almighty Spain One Night Philippines Almighty God Filipino Self-government

Author:William McKinley

“FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.”

Source: Faust, Part I, Egmont and Hermann, Dorothea, Dr Faustus: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XIX (in 51 Volumes)

“Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.”

Willing Iraq Ministers Prime Troops Stubborn Prime Minister Spain Coalitions Duets

Author:Jon Stewart

“How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

“Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?”

World Passion India Lips Population Illness Tongue Reports Midst Spain Vigilant Bora Bora

Author:Lauren Groff

“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.”

Looks Mean Bigs Turns Names Food Wind Chickens Dishes Spain Attempting Dictionary Sandwiches Salad Eels

Author:Dave Barry

“Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.”

Years Born Dad Eight Cooks Mum Spain Exceptional Cuisine Portugal

Author:Paloma Faith

“Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked.”

Country Animal Christianity Europe Roots Catholicism Vegetarian Southern Other Countries Judaism Spain Inhumanity Wanton Southern Italy

Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.”

Firsts Made Funny Ridiculous Impression Dumb Lasting Bowls Fifteen Spain

Book:My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness

Source: My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness

“I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.”

People Thinking Stills Play Culture Difficult Football Regret Criticism England Spain No Regrets

Author:Xavi

“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.”

World Years Accepting Development Consequence Slave Enormous Regions New World Spain American Society Formative Years

Author:Ned Sublette

“Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.”

Made Literature Behinds Kings Devil Crosses Gold Casts Riches Tails Snakes Spain Silk Glitter Old Saying

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

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

Europe Coast Spain Whales Stranded

Author:Edmund Burke

“Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.”

World Years Book Past Translate Spain Present Day Arab World

Author:Martin Amis

“When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.”

Looks Problem Company Solutions Spain Manufacturing Solution To A Problem Ibm

Author:Lou Gerstner

“There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.”

Germany Pockets Mediocre Spain Austria Great Food Morocco Croatia

Author:Mario Batali

“I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.”

Thinking Important Country Helping Our Country Spain

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.”

Used Team Activity Improvement Used To Be Spain Individualistic

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.”

Important Joy Levels Football Certainty Spain Appreciated

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.”

World Wells Winning Interesting Conditions Goes On Difficulty Cups Atmosphere Spain Tournaments Stadiums Format World Cup Confederation

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.”

Thinking Years Different Type France Boards Iron Chef Spain Greece Cuisine Morocco Iron Chef

Author:Cat Cora

“I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.”

People Thinking Country Culture Found Strong Sports Fans Proud Built Passionate Traditional Formulas Improving Spain Formula 1

Author:Fernando Alonso

“In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.”

Rights Tvs Formulas Spain Formula One

Author:Fernando Alonso

“It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.”

Thinking Alive Crazy Window Noise Rhythm Spain Switzerland Drive Me Crazy

Author:Geraldine Chaplin

“It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.”

America Cities Built Workers Ruins Spain Palaces

Author:Buenaventura Durruti

“The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.”

Country Economic Consequence Chaos Germany Abandon Collapse Threatening Spain Wrath Greece Triggers Neighbour Euro

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.”

Knows Way Years Problem Five Music Is England Bars Performing Five Years Australia Spain

Author:Andy Gibb

“I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.”

Born Cinema Spain Bad Times

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.”

People Way States Use Culture Rich Picks Instruments Fingers Guitar Japan Strings Spain

Author:Kevin Eubanks

“Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.”

Ifs Way Hard Funny Boys Travel Gender Hats Bathroom Spain Hard Way Flamingos

Author:Dave Barry

“We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.”

Has Beens America Science Felt Lines Saws Movement Planets Certainty Analysis Reaching Inferiors Unseen Coast Spain Demonstration Trembling Columbus Neptune

Author:William Herschel

“The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.”

Thinking Looks Children Play Stories Individual Interesting Company China Credit Dues Extensions Spain Greece Interesting Things Macro

Author:James Chanos

“I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.”

Two Months Dad Europe My Dad Phones Miles France Germany Spain Motorcycle Two Months Holland Austria Bosnia Croatia

Author:Michael Fassbender

“I studied cooking in Spain after college.”

College Cooking Spain

Author:Jose Garces

“There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.”

People New York Yoga India Dancing Screens Indian Spain Nightclubs

Author:Rahul Gandhi

“We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.”

Looks Two Ends Country Play Hands Lasts Break Week Six Seasons England Winter Luxury Spain January

Author:Franz Beckenbauer

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