Italian Quotes

• I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Mother

• To score four times against an Italian team when you trail 2-0 is a big deal.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Team
  • Italian

• It kind of went from coming back into my apartment in New York and finding boxes of pictures of myself with Lucifer written all over them, and a guy who wanted to cut me up and eat me, to an Italian just recently who dreamt that I wanted to marry him.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Up
  • Guy
  • New York

• I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • American
  • Dream
  • Culture

• Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Community

• I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Rest
  • Italian

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

  

  Peter Weller
  • History
  • Italian

• I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Work
  • Job
  • Together

• 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

• Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Life
  • Proud
  • Italian

• 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

• In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Up
  • Science
  • Brain

• I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • People
  • Parents
  • 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 a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!

  

  Amanda Schull
  • Good
  • Food
  • Mexican

• American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Women
  • American
  • Italian

• 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'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Italian

• We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Freedom
  • Church
  • Ugly

• My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

  

  Kiran Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Music
  • Husband

• If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Myself

• Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

  

  Donna Leon
  • City
  • Italian
  • Loyalty

• I love to listen to pop all the time! I like to be updated on the new hits; I think it's important for what we do. Among my favorites of all time is, of course, Madonna. But I also love Kylie, our little princess; Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and Justin Bieber. And I listen to Italian pop music like Tiziano Ferro.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• 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

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