Italy Quotes
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
Umberto Eco -
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
Camila Alves -
Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
Vidal Sassoon -
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
Nadia Giosia -
I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.
Lapo Elkann -
Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
Lapo Elkann -
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
Harry Mathews
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
Camille Claudel -
Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
Ian Rush -
In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
Carlo Rubbia -
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
Tab Hunter -
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
Barbara Steele
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
Fatos Nano -
Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
Paolo Gentiloni -
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
Tadao Ando -
Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.
Alessandro Del Piero -
Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.
Laure Manaudou -
I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
Ian Rush
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Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
Asia Argento -
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying to learn about Italian music. And what I ended up gravitating towards was this stuff from the '50s and '60s and maybe early '70s, where there were these incredibly talented pop singers that weren't using pop bands.
Mike Patton Faith No More -
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson