Italian Quotes

• Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • Paid
  • Havens

• I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Mother
  • Italian

• The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism - all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.

  

  Patrick White
  • God
  • May
  • Hope

• I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

  

  Dominic Chianese
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. 'You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  

  John Berger
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Earth

• All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Men
  • Long
  • Pretty

• In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

  

  Vittorio Gassman
  • World
  • Real
  • Hours

• I love Italian food.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Food
  • Italian

• The secret is that I am Italian.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Italian

• When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • World
  • War
  • Earth

• My favourite area of Milano is by the canons - I go to an authentic Italian restaurant around there on a Sunday for delicious food.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Food
  • Sunday
  • Italian

• I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Up
  • School
  • Proud

• Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Words
  • Italian

• I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Italian

• I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Food
  • Italian

• I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Irish

• The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand.

  

  Bill Buford
  • Simple
  • Practice
  • Cooking

• "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Names
  • Italian
  • Bears

• Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Trying
  • High

• I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Up
  • American
  • Italian

• Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

  

  Mario Batali
  • People
  • America
  • Nasty

• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Painter
  • Trudeau
  • National Gallery

• On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Family
  • Famous
  • Cousin

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