Salvador Quotes

I`m from San Salvador. It is small compared to Sao Paolo. We are really slow there. People work half a day and then go to the beach. People have time.

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

It`s Frank`s painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

I love dreams, even when they`re nightmares, which is usually the case. My dreams are full of the same obstacles, but it doesn`t matter. My amour fou for the dreams themselves as I shared with the surrealists. Un chien andalou (1929) was born of the encounter between my dreams and (Salvador Dalí)`s. Later, I brought the dreams directly into my films, trying as hard as I could to avoid any analysis. `Don`t worry if the movie`s too short`, I once told a Mexican producer. `I`ll just put in a dream.` He was not impressed.

Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman`s shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.

Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman`s shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

El Salvador is a democracy so it`s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.