Quotes About Italian

Looking down on the scene in the spring of 1453 one would also be able to make out the fortified Genoese town of Galata, a tiny Italian city state on the far side of the Horn, and to see exactly where Europe ends.

Avea una dintre acele foarte vechi priviri de italian care-È™i cunoaÈ™te lumea. E o privire gurmand? care te înv?luie ca s? te înghit? mai bine.

Islam later provided the most persuasive and effective ideological foundation to rally Libyan opposition to continued Italian occupation

Ebbene signor Meis, il destino di Roma è l'identico. I papi ne avevano fatto – a modo loro, s'intende – un'acquasantiera; noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto, a modo nostro, un portacenere.

Ebbene signor Meis,il destino di Roma è identico.I papi ne avevano fatto a modo loro,s'intende un'acquasantiera;noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto,a modo nostro,un portacenere.D'ogni paese siamo venuti qua a scuotervi la cenere del nostro sigaro,che è poi il simbolo della frivolezza di questa miserrima vita nostra e dell'amaro e velenoso piacere che essa ci da.

I'm sure people did question whether Italian printers were quite the right people to legislate on the meaning of everything; but on the other hand, resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down

What's a ree-tard?" I asked Bernadette when I to back upstairs. "In music it's pronounced rih-tard, short for the Italian ritardando, which means slowing down," she said. 'What does it mean when it's pronounced ree-tard and somebody says it about you in English?" I asked. "It usually means the person saying it is a dimwit." (27-28)

Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.

Professor Galiani listened and was impressed by her sincerity, by her unsettling tone, by the intense Italian of her sentences, by her skillfully controlled irony. She must have felt in Lila, I imagine, that elusive quality that seduced and at the same time alarmed, a siren power: it could happen to anyone, it happened to her, and

My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn't angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual.

I grew up in Queens in N.Y., and in parts of my neighbourhood, there were a lot of Italian Americans and a lot of people who were either affiliated with nefarious people or had seen so many movies that they were embodying that.

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

I like playing Italian teams. To me, they are the fairest sportsmen of them all. I don't agree with the Italy stereotypes - I trust in what I have experienced and witnessed.

My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.'

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.