Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 10

Excess is success.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

In fashion, I think I make mistakes every day.

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.

I stick to a Mediterranean diet with fresh produce and olive oil. On a normal day, my diet is divided into the three main meals. I don't eat any other snack between meals during the day.

Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more.

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

One guy that really inspired me was Michael Jordan. I wouldn't say that he inspired me as a sportsman, but I love going back and watching videos of him, especially how he conducts himself in interviews. He always seemed to be very careful about the words that he used and thought about everything differently to anybody else.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Football is not an exact science, but it is about chemistry: Ronaldo and Mandzukic, when they are together, have an excellent understanding.

We have to continue our efforts with determination.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

I want to make films with a broad scope; produced in Italy but looking at the world.

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

I got my ball-handling skills naturally. I know I can get better, and I will get better, but it's something I was born with.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

I am not overconfident.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.

I like to play aggressive.

Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.