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Quotes About Italian

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
~ Connie Francis
Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
~ Buddy Valastro
Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.
~ Paolo Gentiloni
Daniello, you do not like the bread? Eat! ... per favore, have some pasticcio di gnocchi alla boscaiola! " "As long as you don't ask me to repeat the name," Dan replied. Luna Amato chuckled. "Charming boy." "Handsome, too," Dan said.
~ Peter Lerangis
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one's titled Italian admirer, when--quelle surprise!--one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down.
~ Peter Mayle
If there is one thing I've discovered in all my travels, it's that you can't take Italians anywhere… They strolled leisurely, smiling and waving, convinced that the crowd had gathered to see them. The really annoying thing is that they look so damn stylish doing it.
~ Peter Moore
Virtue 'gainst fury shall advance the fight, and it to the combat soon shall put to flight, for the Old Roman Valor is not dead! Nor in the Italian's breasts, extinguish-ed.
~ Petrarch
e noi stiamo bene a sentirci italiani e ne siamo anche fieri e orgogliosi che capiamo che questi legami qui sono nati tra la gente che lavora mica trattati a tavolino tra diplomatici o ministri del cazzo, che di loro ci vergognamo sì,altrochè.
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
~ Sebastian Bach
My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!
~ Kendall Jenner
My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
~ Nicola Formichetti
My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'
~ John Benjamin Hickey
Fellini belongs to nature.
~ Roberto Benigni
The symphony had its origin not in instrumental forms like the concerto grosso, as one might have expected, but in the overture of early Italian opera. The overture, or sinfonia, as it was called, as perfected by Alessandro Scarlatti consisted of three parts: fast-slow-fast, thus presaging the three movements of the classical symphony.
~ Aaron Copland
She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: 'Where's Loo-ka?', just like Audrey Hepburn saying, 'Take the pic-ture,' in Funny Face.
~ Adam Gopnik
When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide, "His Majesty displays the pretensions and naive selfishness of an Italian who considers that his charm and good looks will enable him to get away with anything.
~ Adam Hochschild
If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.
~ Rudolph Valentino
In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
~ Steve Albini
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.
~ Monica Bellucci
Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.
~ Joe Bastianich
America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.
~ Joe Bastianich
I don't go a day without eating pasta.
~ Kaia Gerber
I love pasta. It's something in the water. The pasta and the bread in New York are so good.
~ Ella Purnell
I eat pasta every day. It gives me energy. I love the taste.
~ Frankie Avalon