Top 1200 Being Italian Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.

As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Italian sides will find it hard to attract the world's top players while there is a salary cap.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

?"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.

Well, yeah. You said you wanted Italian. See. Chef Boyardee. He makes one the best stuff. (Tabitha)

I was trained under very famous coaches in the Italian national team, Read Madrid, Juventus, Internazionale and Parma.

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

Unfortunately, it is part of Italian football and our culture to come to the stadium and whistle players for the choices they make.

Italian football lost credibility because of the match-fixing scandals - the best footballers didn't want to come.

When there is a solid base of Italian players, those who come in take their example, and then everyone is working in the same direction.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

I always wanted to learn French or Italian growing up. I love the romantic sound of those languages.

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

My favourite area of Milano is by the canons - I go to an authentic Italian restaurant around there on a Sunday for delicious food.

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

If it's good-looking men you're after, the place to go is Italy. Every Italian I've ever come across is handsome.

Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.