Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 3

The press always compared my family to the Kennedys - so much bad luck.

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

I have found serenity at Monaco.

I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.

When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a strong emotional appeal, which was reinforced by having an uncle who was an excellent surgeon.

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

If populism means reducing the gap between the people and the elite, giving sovereignty - the fullness of sovereignty - back to the people, and making the job of representation really adhere to the protection of the interests represented, we embrace the title of populists.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I learned English in a pub. I didn't learn it in school.

My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

In the morning, I'm like the Antonioni movies. I'm little sad. I haven't the courage to start the day. In the evenings, I'm happier, more alive - like the character I play in 'An Almost Perfect Affair.'

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

It is better to laugh than cry.

He conquers who endures.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.

My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs.

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!