Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 13

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

I am a beast!

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality.

The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Off the pitch, I'm a little bit reserved, but I'm always smiling.

Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in - I can't invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament - that's about one crook in twelve. It's worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

I think as a team we do OK with this because we are new and we need the drivers so we appreciate more if they do good for us than an established team, because you know it all and you know this environment here, it's like 'it cannot be me, it must be the driver'.

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Life is short, and you have to have fun with it, you know?

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.