Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 16

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

In order to move others, I must be moved.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.

We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality. There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Bio-Oil is the best scar and stretchmark prevention/remedy. I swear by the entire range of Vea Oleo - their lip balm is great. I use the one in tubes for my son Otto's winter skin dryness.

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

Napoli fans saw themselves in me. I knew I was not alone when entering the pitch, but I was there with a whole city.

A vicuna alive is worth more than one dead. Now it is like a goldmine.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Cristiano Ronaldo's arrival here at Juventus has been fundamental.

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.

One day, when this modeling thing is over for me and I don't enjoy it anymore, I'm just gonna be gone! You know? I'm not here for fame or money. I'm not going to stick around and pretend everything is cool if I'm over it. When it's done, I'm out. Ciao.

I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

I'm never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was, like, mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy, except it's real.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

You always have to dream big and think big.

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.