Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 19

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

As you can see from 'Symptomatic of a relationship gone sour' I have definitely done my fair share of sinning, so I just want to recount my story and how I have come to terms with myself.

These technical flicks and tricks come naturally to me and I don't really think about them. I did a backheel against Udinese and the coach would've strangled me if he could have!

I'm not the most beautiful model in the industry, but I am for sure one of the most 'fashion' creatures you can find!

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

I love England, it's my home now. But I've been to the city, the centre of London, very little, as I don't really relax.

A stalker tormented me for over five years. I don't know what was going through his mind, as he was a police officer, and because of that, I at first considered him someone to be trusted.

I am against all war.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.

Only I can turn this country around.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.'

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.

As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everything.

I believe the most important thing for the defender is to take the ball away from the opposing team, no matter what, and not to allow any space or give any occasions for opponents to score goals.

The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

Men can do all things if they will.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.