Posts Tagged as ‘Quotes’

January 27, 2008

¡¿Y todo esto por un tipo que no existe?!

(Resumen de Bettina de los acontecimientos de los últimos 2000 años: guerras, conquistas, inquisición, atentados, luchas de poder, formación y ruptura de estados, persecución de ideas… y por supuesto los 15 minutos de subida al monte Naranco (Oviedo) con su gran Cristo en la cumbre… ;)

November 7, 2007

Reading Hemingway: Typical Spanish

“[There are] two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish: give the men tobacco and leave the women alone”
“He stayed as he was told. That´s the rarest thing that can happen in Spain.”
“French would saved [the bottle of whisky] what was left for another occasion. No, the true thoughfulness of thinking the [...]

October 16, 2007

Reading Hemingway: flags

“The old flag of yellow and gold we called pus and blood. The flag of the Republic with the purple added we call blood, pus and permanganate” -
Pilar, a republican defender (For Whom The Bell Tolls)