Italian Quotes · Page 19

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen…

— Justin Baldoni

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

— Jennifer Donnelly

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

— Claire Forlani

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

— Stephen Starr

I love Italian food; you can't go wrong with Rosebud, and of course, I like Lou Malnati's pizza.

— Shanola Hampton

It doesn't really matter what ethnicity you are, but I love that I'm bringing light to not only my Mexican side but…

— Eva Marie

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

— Pablo Picasso

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

— William C. Brown

I'm Italian and the privilege of working in my home country would fill me with pride. However, the opportunity to work in…

— Fabio Cannavaro

If I hosted a high tea at home it would be an Italian aperitivo-style high tea. I'd make little meatballs with lemon…

— Adriano Zumbo

You know what the problem is with Italian food? It's great, it's good specific food that you do very well, but in…

— Weston McKennie

Before we opened, we did some research on the North Shore and we found that people wanted both Italian and seafood. Those…

— Marc Jacobs

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and…

— Giada De Laurentiis

An Italian piazza was my vision - a place where people would come and meet, see an exhibition, browse through books, have…

— Carla Sozzani

The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of…

— Alain Ducasse

I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys.…

— Godfrey Gao

Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...)…

— Gianfranco Fini

You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

“We eat spaghetti all' amatriciana , with a sauce of guanciale , which is the pig's" ---he ran his finger down her…

— Anthony Capella

I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom…

— Yitzhak Rabin

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were…

— Robert Davi

I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying…

— Mike Patton

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

— Timothee Chalamet

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the…

— Pauline Kael

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

— Quentin Tarantino

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

— Dave Barry

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

— Alex Ferguson

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

— Lord Byron

“He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]”

— Vincent B. Chip LoCoco

When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I…

— Roxanne Lowit

“sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.”

— Estelle Getty

I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

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

— Martin Scorsese

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

— Lauren Ambrose

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch…

— Abel Ferrara

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

— Ann Goldstein

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

— Wally Lamb