Italian Quotes · Page 8

I love to dress in Italian clean-cut three-piece suits.

— Jay Williams

“Italian food trumps ex-boyfriends every time,”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

— Lady Gaga

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

— Roy Hodgson

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

— Romano Prodi

You can't do more mama than Italian Jewish mama.

— Ginevra Elkann

“...fundamental Italian cookery rule that less is more!”

— Francine Segan

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

— Richard Rogers

I don't like the Italian approach. I don't want to be involved in that kind of football.

— Craig Bellamy

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in…

— Mario Balotelli

I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.

— Pauly D

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we…

— Vittorio Gassman

“You see two people making delectable Italian food, and I see that and a whole lot more.” Inseperable”

— Phil Wohl

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

— Sebastian Bach

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys…

— Roberto Benigni

Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and…

— George Weigel

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta…

— Jennifer Esposito

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye…

— Silvia Colloca

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to…

— Robert Towne

A lot of people believe Italian food is tasty because there are a lot of ingredients. But they don't understand that the…

— Gino D'Acampo

“She’s not Italian in any way you’d notice. No garlic smell or big armpit hair. She came here to attend medical school.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually…

— Tom Douglas

I didn't speak much Italian. I did a few courses so I knew a bit before I got there but you have…

— Felipe Anderson

Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet…

— Richard Rodriguez

“    Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't…

— John Fante

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you…

— Swami Vivekananda

I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.…

— Haruki Murakami

All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because…

— Apolo Ohno

“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has…

— Dorothea Singer

“I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce.”

— Susanna Clarke

My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

— Mike Birbiglia

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

— Frank Grillo

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

— Chita Rivera

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

— David Coleman

My dad's Sicilian and my mom is half Italian and half Jewish.

— Antonia Lofaso

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

— Harry Lloyd