Italian Quotes · Page 20

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

— Anthony Bourdain

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

— Valentino Rossi

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

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

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

— Alex Ferguson

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to…

— Leo Buscaglia

The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved,…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness.…

— Carole Bouquet

I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with…

— Mario Balotelli

Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know…

— Sean Connery

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage…

— Karl Kraus

We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a…

— Josh Brolin

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than…

— Kenneth Fisher

When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.…

— Nick Offerman

A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time,…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what…

— Manolo Blahnik

1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go…

— David Bowie

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly…

— Samuel Johnson

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the…

— Penelope Cruz

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed…

— John Berger

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

— Giorgio Napolitano

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

— Nathaniel Rich

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

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

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

— Stephen Starr

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

— Claire Forlani

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

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Shanola Hampton

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

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

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

— Otto Skorzeny

“I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.”

— Oscar Wilde

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

— Rob Reiner

Only eliminating all pains in the ass the real mild and gentle man can live in peace.

— William C. Brown