Italian Quotes · Page 13

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

— Diane Cilento

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America…

— Lidia Bastianich

I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

— Lapo Elkann

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

— Kiran Ahluwalia

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

— Omar Sharif

“Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.”

— A.A. Freda

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

— Peter Ustinov

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

— Kate Walsh

Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know…

— Sean Connery

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage…

— Karl Kraus

We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a…

— Josh Brolin

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than…

— Kenneth Fisher

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have…

— Saul Williams

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone…

— Colin Firth

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation…

— Mohsin Hamid

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the…

— Sergio Leone

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because…

— Pat Cooper

I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy,…

— Brooke Burke

If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages…

— Noam Chomsky

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the…

— Carl Zimmer

There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can…

— Daniel Wallace

I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up…

— David Ogilvy

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

— Mario Cuomo

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.

— Adriano Giannini

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

— Derrick Williams

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

— Indro Montanelli

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

— Farhan Akhtar

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into…

— Brandon Boyd

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

— Sullivan Stapleton

Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.

— Anonymous

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in…

— Roger Federer

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

— Matt Rhule

What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the…

— Amanda Knox

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

— Robert Mondavi

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They…

— Bill Rancic

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt