Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 14

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

If you want peace work for justice.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Since I was 16 years old entering professional league, all the eyes were on me. And in Milan you have to win... every game.

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.

If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

I'm not one to make calculations, I'm spontaneous and I prefer it that way.

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd achieved that, the hunger came back. That fire in your belly, the desire to feel the adrenaline at the weekend. That's when I felt I was able to go again.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Klopp is a coach with a lot of charisma.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.

I get my eyelashes done. I get my top lashes done, and then I use waterproof mascara for my bottom lashes. It's an easy regimen.

I know Louboutin extremely well. He has a mind and a vision of life that is extremely creative. He designs his shops, his homes, the way he lives.

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

I have learned to make a lot of effort and sacrifice for this sport, and now I can say it's paying me back. So it is important to always show determination and effort on the pitch.

I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.

I shared so much with Massimo Oddo. He's an intelligent and funny guy whose success speaks for him. He got a few slaps in the face from me for his pranks, as we had very different ideas on how to prepare for a game.

If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

Some of the yellow cards I get are for tactical fouls, which is fair enough, but I don't like the others - the ones for protesting.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

Every goal for me is beautiful.

I could be baking a cake and I'll do it a certain way. If you're just a creative person, it'll come out no matter what.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Having a good defensive line allows you to play better because it's less stressful in terms of defending.

Look, in my life, I played one World Cup: the greatest thing. I used to wait in anticipation for the squad announcement. I didn't go to Argentina 78 having played throughout qualification. Now, that hurt.

Del Piero is like Raul in Spain, he is the number one.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

To be honest I wasn't very good at football. I loved cricket and when I started making some big scores for my boys' team, I dreamed of becoming the next Border.