Italian Quotes

• It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.

  

  John Blair
  • People
  • Important
  • Support

• English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • English
  • Italian

• I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Live
  • Character
  • Amazing

• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Learn
  • Better

• I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

  

  Pauly D
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Italian

• I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Live
  • Country
  • Movies

• Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Italian

• The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Sea
  • Italian

• I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Mother
  • Famous
  • Italian

• Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Italian

• If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Today

• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • World
  • Law
  • Understanding

• I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Strong
  • Language
  • Beauty

• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  

  Charles V
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  

  Connie Francis
  • True
  • Friend
  • Italian

• But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Italian

• I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Food
  • Italian

• If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People
  • Gay
  • Italian

• But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Growing

• We have spoken to the Italian administration at the highest level and they have agreed that these allegations will be fully investigated as part of the wider investigation into police malpractice by the Genoa Public Prosecutor.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Police
  • Administration
  • Allegations

• And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Cool
  • Garden
  • Winter

• I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

  

  Peter Weller
  • History
  • Italian

• The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Italian

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