Italian Quotes · Page 16

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.

— Gabriel Batistuta

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase…

— Regina Doman

Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a…

— Marcus Samuelsson

My favorite type of food is probably Italian. But I love steakhouses. I love Mexican Food. I mean, I really like it…

— Jimmer Fredette

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

— H. L. Mencken

“She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there…

— Ray Romano

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the…

— Brian Andreas

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 love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian…

— Andrea Bocelli

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen…

— Dominic Chianese

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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

— George Weigel

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create…

— Howard Schultz

Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,…

— Dante Alighieri

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Cassie perused the offerings, her mouth watering with excitement. Lemon cream, raspberry ricotta and meringue, Parmesan, creamed corn, cassis, persimmon, summer fig,…

— Emily Arden Wells

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in…

— Zubin Mehta

There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can…

— Daniel Wallace

I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up…

— David Ogilvy

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

— Diane von Furstenberg

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'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

— Eric Garcetti

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

— Norman Jewison

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

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented…

— Miranda Hart

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

— Henny Youngman

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really…

— Thomas Keller

I got married on a beach in Italy. It was very romantic getting married in Italian. But I've no idea what we…

— Denis Lawson

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