Italian Quotes · Page 22

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

— Norman Jewison

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

— Joy Behar

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

— Dolly Parton

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

— Nancy Pelosi

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

— Mack McLarty

When there is a solid base of Italian players, those who come in take their example, and then everyone is working in…

— Andrea Pirlo

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

— Pharrell Williams

“The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)”

— Maria Grazia Swan

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should…

— Edith Wharton

For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British…

— Riccardo Tisci

Even at the beginning when I arrived at Givenchy, there were certainly people who supported me, but not everyone loved me. They…

— Riccardo Tisci

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling…

— Tinie Tempah

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments…

— Mario Batali

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of…

— Joseph Stalin

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places…

— Charles Lamb

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I…

— Cesaro

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

— Woody Allen

I love cooking Italian food. My dad is Italian, although my dishes also have my mum's German-Polish influence.

— Jack Savoretti

“The Japanese are easily influenced, Italian's are infectious, And German's are German's wherever they go.”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's…

— David Byrne

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard…

— Valeria Golino

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

— Jon Stewart

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

— Djibril Cisse

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!

— Buddy Valastro

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is…

— Sergio Leone

I am very much the daughter of immigrants. It's both a point of pride and an essential part of characterizing my upbringing.…

— Diana Taurasi

I speak Italian and a little bit of French. I moved to Trento, Italy, when I was around 10 to learn Italian.…

— Eiza Gonzalez

Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English." "But Italian is so moving," Dain said. "To ho voluto dal primo…

— Loretta Chase

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was…

— Vinny Guadagnino

For me, I just like to cut out bread. I like to keep the good carbs in my diet - I love…

— Ashley Tisdale

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends…

— Francois Hollande

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction…

— Ambrose Bierce

His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra…

— Robert Davi

I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home.…

— Robert Sietsema

The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you…

— Chiara Barzini

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the…

— Alessia Cara

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest…

— Gilbert Parker

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino'…

— Hugh Jackman