Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 12

The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

I have a very strong personality.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

A sore ankle, a swollen knee or a bruise makes you feel alive.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.

In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side.

'Populism' is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Italian players go to bed and they think about the training session of that day and the one the day after.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Inzaghi is certainly the coach I got along best with.

'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.

Our life is full of empty space.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

The government's goal is to provide income support for families most affected by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and job reintegration.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

Since I was a child, I watched tapes of Baggio, Zico, and Maradona, and then I tried to replicate them just playing on my own against the wall. Certainly it's talent, but you have to cultivate that talent.

In the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used so much - every relatively cheap TV show eventually had it because it's not expensive. It's just one guy doing the whole soundtrack. So it was overdone.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

My mother was my best friend and confidante.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

Football, for me, is an infinite passion that will always be around.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Narcissism in moderate amounts is not harmful to health.

I will be the defense attorney for all Italians.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat, you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a woman's wardrobe, her desires.

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

I think I'm going to be a stuntwoman on the side.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

I'm tired of relying on someone to drive me around. I just want my freedom.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.