Best Italy Lines
410 Italy quotes by 300 unique authors
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Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
— Joichi Ito
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Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
— Billy Tauzin
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I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
— Clarence Clemons
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I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out…
— Bruce Sterling
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When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
— Gerry Mulligan
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I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in…
— Romano Prodi
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But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.
— Romano Prodi
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The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
— Emily Greene Balch
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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above…
— James E. Burke
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Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.
— Michael O'Leary
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Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also…
— Dean Acheson
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The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but…
— E. M. Forster
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
— Benito Mussolini
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The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary…
— Klemens von Metternich
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Italy is only a geographical expression.
— Klemens von Metternich
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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to…
— Stephen Hawking
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People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you…
— Monica Bellucci
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Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War…
— Tom Brokaw
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People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach…
— Geert Hofstede
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in…
— John Dryden
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In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up -…
— Renzo Piano
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk…
— Annie Dillard
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I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself…
— James Boswell
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Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved…
— Paul Smith
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