“In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough. — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
When the national team plays, everyone feels a part of it. Everyone comes together. And when Italians come together, we tend to… — Fabio Cannavaro Copy Share Image
When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology. — Eamon Copy Share Image
Generally, Italians just eat better. They're not doing that thing where they're eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They're never… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe;… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
Maybe Italians are a bit less restrained: they can be less rigid and sometimes they stray a little in their ways of… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
“Italians are genetically incapable of standing in an orderly line, so much so that the movie theater seems more crowded than it… — Petra F. Bagnardi Copy Share Image
“That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that… — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“Italians love emotional people. If you're reserved you either have something to hide or you're just plain stupid.” — Joe Novella Copy Share Image
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
“We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look… — Danny Aiello Copy Share Image
Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you… — Samir Nasri Copy Share Image
Italians are hot and you feel the passion more there than in England. Anglo-Saxon people are more distant. It's not that you… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country,… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
The United States didn't ban Italian immigration in the 1920s because a small minority of Italians became members of the Mafia, and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect. — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
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