Italian Quotes · Page 18

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture…

— Jonas Carpignano

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you…

— Madonna Ciccone

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

— Mario Monicelli

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

— Gianni Versace

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

— William C. Brown

I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian…

— Nicola Formichetti

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

— William C. Brown

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

— Stefano Gabbana

I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture,…

— Augustus

“There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little…

— Al Pacino

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed…

— John Blair

I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian…

— Vincenzo Nibali

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV…

— Ann Coulter

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something…

— Quentin Tarantino

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Gianfranco Fini

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.…

— Ray Bradbury

I eat like a kid. I like Chief Boyardee. Their Ravioli, but they have some stuff I've never seen in the real…

— Brian Regan

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore…

— John Milton

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“Europe’s earliest cookbook came from ancient Rome. In it, the writer Epicius described the recipes for dishes such as stuffed dormouse, and…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be…

— Quentin Tarantino

“How do you say, 'Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?”

— Regina Doman

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich

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

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

— Giorgio Napolitano

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

— William C. Brown

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

— Timothee Chalamet

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

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

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

— Shanola Hampton

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

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Pauline Kael