Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 15

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer concerned about this, because I'm focused on making films. Perhaps one day someone who discovers sunken treasures will reexamine my 35 or 36 films - I hope it will be 40 or 50 before I die.

By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

If you score goals in Italy you can score goals all over the world, no problem.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.

A successful designer must be a gambler.

They're all my children... every score I've done.

Too much tension can do bad things to you.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Everyone says Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, but I would have love to have played with Luka Modric. I think he's an incredible player, really strong mentally and a pure footballer.

I understand the fans, I respect them. I'll accept the whistling and booing. It's up to me to transform that all into applause.

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.

I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

I cover my shyness by being exactly the opposite. You know, really loud and very Italian. I am an extremely insecure and fragile person, and only the people that really know me know that. But I push myself.

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

I played for Bologna in Serie A when I was 16, and those experiences made me this person. Just as importantly, I never played for a big club. My teams were normal, ordinary, but through hard work, we became successful.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.

I try to forget the past.

To me, flowers are happiness.

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

As long-term business builders, we invest our permanent capital and deploy management skills in support of talented leaders and companies with global potential.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

When I think resort, I think prettiness.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

A ponytail or a chignon makes me feel very beautiful and sensual. I feel like I can be more myself that way - I can move and talk without worrying about the hair.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.