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499 Italian quotes by 393 unique authors

I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the… — Renzo Rosso
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.... — Violet Trefusis
The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling… — Marcella Hazan
Nearly all Italian officers speak French. — Hugh Dalton
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one.… — Joe Strummer
Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of… — Andrea Mitchell
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of… — Aristotle Onassis
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine
I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a… — Mark Teixeira
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. — Norman Jewison
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of… — Dario Fo
I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian. — David Markson
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you… — Terry Rossio
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. — Susan Lucci
I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I… — Mario Balotelli
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its… — George Saintsbury
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken… — KatÃ³ Lomb
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me — Elizabeth I
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had… — Umberto Guidoni
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. — Al D'Amato
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. — Barbara Steele

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