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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
"I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary."
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
"When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do."
"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."
"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
"Evil report carries further than any applause."
"I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy."
"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy."
"To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error."
"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
"In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship."
"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."
"Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to."
"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story."
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."
"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
"Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity."
"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."
"We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing."
"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."
"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."
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