Italian Quotes

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

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

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

I absolutely love Italian food. So pizza - like a margherita pizza, penne arbiota, a glass of wine. That's like my dream.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

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

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!

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

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache.