Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 20

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Politics have no relation to morals.

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.

Being at a World Cup is a sacrifice? Twenty days is a sacrifice? What about the people there working for the team, up at five every morning? That's sacrifice. It's not a sacrifice to play.

I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Sex is the great equalizer.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

You cannot choose your opponents.

I don't conquer, I submit.

I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

I am a very superstitious person.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

I played for Sampdoria and stayed there 15 years. Of course, I could have gone to Juventus, to AC Milan, to Inter Milan many times, but I preferred to remain because Sampdoria were my family, from the owners to the players.

I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

I was close to Napoli and it's true that I did hope to one day play for them, but I am so happy here that after arriving at Lazio, I stopped thinking about it.

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in power just a few hours away from Italy by boat.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

Mancini makes us feel good inside and outside of the field.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

All Italians speak Spanish without studying.

Of course, you decide which story you want to tell. For me, it's been very authentic, so sometimes I'm super happy, and I post four pictures one after the other; sometimes I'm busy, and I don't. Sometimes I'm sad, and I post a sad picture.

Obviously, I pay for the fact I was an actress once. But it was a job like any other, because I never did anything scandalous.

A champion's strength comes from never being contented.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

The client is not always right.

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.