Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 4
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A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
I propose to build for eternity.
Power wears out those who don't have it.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Step by step and the thing is done.
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.
I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
People confuse economists and economic policy.
Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
I have thought about moving to Dubai for a while. It's a city that I love.
We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.
I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
When I was really young, I got moonstruck by 'Moonstruck.'
I'd love everyone to try authentic Italian food.
All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.
You are always chasing yourself, if you have testing sessions you test it out then but it's also a thing of growing a team.
People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.
An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
There is hope to catch up, as long as Leeds get to the Premier League. I feel with a project an idea and people of quality we can close the gap on clubs with a different budget.
Personality for me is the strongest statement.
We are very far from our potential, but you aren't going to see 500 stores; that wouldn't be consistent with the exclusivity of our brand. You also aren't going to see a Loro Piana perfume, glasses, or watches, because we are concentrating on our core business.
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
Health comes before everything else and football can wait.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.
There is no forgiveness in nature.
The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and not as Alessandra. That, really, I don't like. I didn't know my grandfather. I am me.
No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.
It's not a small thing, it's a pandemic, but economically we should not be in this position that we are this fragile as an industry. We don't go racing for three months and we are on the verge of collapsing, which is amazing.
I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.
With myself, Mario Balotelli, Robinho, Alessandro Matri, Giampaolo Pazzini, and now Kaka, we will be too strong.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
I loved everything about my wedding look, but, in retrospect, I would have changed the position of where we attached the veil on my head. Make sure you test a few different placements and styles before the big day to make a clear vision and plan with your hairstylist.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
