Top 282 Italians Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!
I received a shot and broke my tooth. Unfortunately, we Italians only eat pasta al dente.
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 Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.
I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them.
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)
The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.
I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.
What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion.
We Italians need to feel like we're under pressure, we need to see an enemy.
What I have always liked about Italians is the way they are serious when they need to be but know how to relax and have a laugh, too.
The United States didn't ban Italian immigration in the 1920s because a small minority of Italians became members of the Mafia, and the country is a richer place for it.
In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws and regulations and monitor who enters and who leaves this country.
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
I will never find people like the Italians... there is this spontaneity, this living life with a smile, to its fullest.
Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".
President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.
Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.
When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.
Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
The VAR was introduced to reduce controversies, and instead, they have increased - possibly because we Italians like to stoke them.
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won't score lots of goals, but they won't concede many, either.
The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.
We Italians are very superstitious so before the game we prefer to predict that the opponents will win.
I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.
And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.
I get on well with Italians. Which makes things easier when I meet, for example, my future mechanics at Ferrari.
We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
