Spanish Empire/twilight of The Global Empire 1800%e2%80%931899

Famous quotes containing the words spanish, empire, twilight and/or global:

    “They are a curious mixture of Spanish tradition, American imitation, and insular limitation. This explains why they never catch on to themselves.”
    —Helen Lawrenson (1904–1982)

    “The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.”
    —Ken Dodd (b. 1931)

    “There in the twilight cold and gray,
    Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay,
    And from the sky, serene and far,
    A voice fell, like a falling star,
    Excelsior!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney.” Mr. Wallace’s warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.”
    —Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)