Spanish Royal Academy

Famous quotes containing the words spanish, royal and/or academy:

“How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“You know, he wanted to shoot the Royal Family, abolish marriage, and put everybody who’d been to public school in a chain gang. Yeah, he was a idealist, your dad was.”
—David Mercer, British screenwriter, and Karel Reisz. Mrs. Dell (Irene Handl)

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)