Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 18

My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it.

San Siro is a tricky stadium. If you have the right personality, it helps you. But if you don't have the right personality, it can be very hard to play in San Siro.

I don't believe in political strategies. I believe only to do good for the people.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.

Nightlife is, to me, a little synthetic, a little desperate?

I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life.

And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.

They said Babe Ruth built Yankee Stadium and Bruno Sammartino built the Garden. It always was my favorite place.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

Even the best teams, there are times during the year when you cannot win, and you don't know why. Maybe you are unlucky; you make chances, and you cannot score.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

I know America is the country that loved me most.

I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

For it is in giving that we receive.

All that counts in life is intention.

I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak.

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

Jorginho is really suitable to the way I like to play. He is a player that has many good sides to him. He wants to work hard, and he's very fast in moving the ball, which is important for us, although there is also Cesc Fabregas, who has the same potential as Jorginho.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

Life is an endless cycle for those who believe in reincarnation.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Just naming Batistuta gives me goosebumps!

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Having someone breathing on your neck can be good for you.

When the best manager in the world says you're one of his favourite players, you act like it's nothing, but you still can't help but have a smile on your lips.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.