Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 2

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?

Balance is the secret for every team. There cannot be a defensive formation and an attacking formation: such a concept is a limitation.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

I am quick and very good technically and like to entertain fans that come to the stadium.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Loro Piana is all about seeking quality materials.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

I don't believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Street fashion forever.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Every day I'm learning stuff. I started back in August with a DJ friend and since then I've been practicing and taking lessons every day.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.

The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.

So I think it's like the night before the exam. Obviously, you stress. But when you have done your job well, then you need to go down, relax and enjoy.

Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Sneakers are a new era. Anyone can feel new with a new pair of shoes. They make you feel contemporary. It's fun because I'm not a young designer, and it opens my brain. Hip-hop isn't just for the U.S. Everyone loves it.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.