Provare In Italian Quotes

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

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

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. ~ Al Pacino

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. ~ Mario Batali

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian. ~ Lapo Elkann

My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me. ~ Andrea Navedo

An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani ... ~ Susan Lucci

There is no robber worse than a bad book. ~ Italian Proverb

I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time. ~ Ne-Yo

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food. ~ Elisha Cuthbert

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

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

I feel Italian, but I also feel French," she said. "Italy is deeper. France is strong, but it's after." Actually, one of the surprises about meeting [Valeria Bruni Tedeschi] is how Italian she seems. Though she has no trace of an Italian accent when speaking French - and says that, in Italian, she shows signs of having lived in France - she sounds Italian when speaking English. There is no suggestion of French at all. ~ Mick LaSalle

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.' ~ Robert Hamer

Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began to thrive, under the protection of more than four hundred thousand Italian and native troops. ~ Winston S. Churchill

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me ~ Elizabeth I

...fundamental Italian cookery rule that less is more! ~ Francine Segan

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes ... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body. ~ Penelope Cruz

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood ~ Rocky Marciano

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. ~ Al D'Amato

I really had wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I think ever since - or even maybe even before I had read Dante. And I just sort of had this idea that I wanted to read Dante in Italian. And then in my office, we actually had a class - an Italian class. ~ Ann Goldstein

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking. ~ Anthony Bourdain

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

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

There is no friend so faithful as a good book. There is no worse robber than a bad book. ~ Italian Proverb

Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble. ~ A.A. Freda

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on. ~ Lee Child

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

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre. ~ Perry Groves

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral ... or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you. ~ John Green

I discovered right away at the airport that Italian men were way too attentive. ~ Glenda Helms

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian
a language I find more beautiful than roses ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory. ~ David Coleman

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. ~ Martin Scorsese

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing! ~ Sophia Loren

The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village. ~ Tonya Russo Hamilton

I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have specialized equipment, Chinese food is really tough because you literally can't get the pan hot enough. ~ Robert Sietsema

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. ~ Domenico Dolce

There is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' ~ Benjamin Franklin

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

I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue. ~ Adriana Lima

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

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

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day. ~ Benito Mussolini

I'm a big fan of Italian neo-realism and all of that stuff. ~ David Ayer

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine! ~ Benito Mussolini

The secret is that I am Italian. ~ Dennis Christopher

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated. ~ William C. Brown

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

Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

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

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother. ~ Diane Cilento

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew. ~ Alex Rocco

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.' ~ Nadia Giosia

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. ~ Jeffrey Deitch

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. ~ Robert Mondavi

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

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history. ~ Peter Weller

I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian. ~ Stjepan Hauser

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. ~ Alvar Aalto

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

Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian. ~ Cynthia Lennon

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

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too. ~ Kristin Chenoweth

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right. ~ Gia Coppola

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

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. ~ Nancy Pelosi

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me. ~ David Suchet

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. ~ Frank Gehry

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out. ~ Giuliana Sgrena

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny. ~ Dominic Chianese

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people. ~ Paul Haggis

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines. ~ Eva Herzigova

There is nothing like a fine Italian sound. ~ Itzhak Perlman

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working. ~ Daniel Handler

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour . ~ Andrew Dickson White

I give pleasure to you. Do not interfere..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion ~ Olga Goa

Italian as a language, she thinks, suits children with its singsong cadences and rising lingering inflections, its quick swinging gait and easy adaptability to argument, to passionate outbursts. ~ Glenn Haybittle

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ~ Mario Batali

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it! ~ Jackie Mason

In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers. ~ Dave Barry

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian. ~ Woody Allen

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it. ~ Milton Berle

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like. ~ Geraldine Ferraro

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery. ~ Sandro Veronesi

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen. ~ Norman Mailer

Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion ~ OlgaGOA

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American. ~ Indro Montanelli

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 signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. ~ Umberto Guidoni

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear. ~ Ann Goldstein

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant. ~ Louis Tomlinson

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian ... and I couldn't understand a word he said. ~ Paulo Costanzo

Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef. ~ Jose Andres

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English. ~ Meta Golding

There are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men. ~ Letitia Baldrige