Quotes About Italy

You don't criticise Totti in Italy. There might have been reasons to, sometimes, but you don't touch him.

I know Italy very well and I know what gets said, written and speculated about there. I'm used to it.

Some of the craziest audiences are in Italy. They are very emotional and passionate so it is always fun to play across the country I always enjoy the amazing food.

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

I love fashion from all over the world, from Japan to London to Italy.

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

It's an honour to play with the Italy jersey.

Renaissance Rice Balls SERVES 10 (APPROXIMATELY 36 RICE BALLS) RICE BALLS like these, today known as "arancine," or little oranges, are still made in many parts of Italy. During the Renaissance these savory balls would have been colored purple or yellow with dried edible flower petals or saffron. This dish can be easily re-created using food coloring to produce the different colored balls. Of course, they are delicious without the coloring!

There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.

Papá adoraba a los animales (...) eso es algo que me ha legado, lo mismo que el amor a Italia, a la literatura o a la historia de las civilizaciones. Cierto es que su animalofilia no le privaba de ponerse hasta arriba de asados, filetes o salchichas.

Por qué a los italianos les interesaba promover la leyenda de un héroe castellano? El hecho es que optaron por considerar a Gonzalo, en tanto que comandante de los ejércitos de Nápoles, defensor de los intereses de Italia frente a las agresiones de Francia. Giovio dijo de los gobernantes de Nápoles que eran buenos, de los españoles, que fueron valientes, pero de los franceses afirmó que eran «hombres extranjeros insolentes y crueles»34

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

If you can score a lot of goals in Italy, you can do it in the Champions League as well.

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

Getting stuck in a plane for four hours on the tarmac on the hottest day of summer in Italy - it was like being trapped in a boiling tin can.

I love being in Ojai. It's kind of a travel destination because I drive to it from Los Angeles. I also love Italy.

I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.

I have travelled and I have played for some amazing clubs along the way. In Italy and at Sion, I enjoyed my time.

When I left Ajax in 1999, I travelled to Liverpool and spoke to Houllier. I was shown around Anfield and also met with the chairman and a couple of the players. I thought about it, but when Juventus came to the table, I came to the conclusion that it would be a bigger challenge to play in Italy.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.