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Quotes About Italian

For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly.
~ Nigel Farage
Milan are the most glorious Italian club.
~ Gerard Deulofeu
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.
~ Peter Bergen
Rays, boys, rays," chuckled Scientific Officer Counterfly, busy with his photographic calibrations, "the wonders of our age, and rest assured none of 'em strangers to the spectrum of this fabled Italian sunlight. Just wait till we're back in the developing room, and you shall see a thing or two then, by Garibaldi, that you shall.
~ Thomas Pynchon
BLACK LEATHER ITALIAN DOMINATION CALLING AFTER HE SAID BLACK EYES HIT HARD
~ Keith Haring
He turned the frame, so I could see his picture in it. "Smoochie poo?" "It's Italian for ass clown. What are you doing in my room?" "Admiring your taste in arts and crafts?" He tilted the frame. "The application of glitter could use some work.
~ Ilona Andrews
Mi chiesero dove volessi andare. Mandatemi in un posto dove non ci sono italiani risposi per esempio perché non mi mandate a Davos? Mi risposero ma a Davos ci sono i tubercolotici... E io meglio la tbc degli italiani. E in quei momenti capii che si, era giusto che il fascismo fosse andato in malora, ma anche che quello che lo avrebbe sostituito non sarebbe stato migliore.
~ Indro Montanelli
The flat was small and smelt of ancient things with which Gildas had not contended. In the sitting room shadowy photographs of Italian lakes had been hung high up by a previous tenant.
~ Iris Murdoch
en 1798, un anatomista italiano, Luigi Galvani, descubrió que bajo la influencia de una chispa eléctrica se podía conseguir que los músculos muertos se crispasen y contrajesen como si estuviesen vivos. ¿Era posible que la electricidad fuese el secreto de la vida?
~ Isaac Asimov
They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.
~ Isabel Allende
In 1920 a political leader was elected who for the first time preached social justice: Arturo Alessandri Palma, nicknamed The Lion. He came from a middle-class family of second-generation Italian immigrants.
~ Isabel Allende
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time.
~ Isabella Rossellini
I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.
~ Chuck Hogan
Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.
~ Steve Erickson
I'd love everyone to try authentic Italian food.
~ Gino D'Acampo
Generally, Italians just eat better. They're not doing that thing where they're eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They're never eating a carbonara sauce with a tub of cream in it.
~ Gino D'Acampo
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
~ Norman Jewison
Albanians love topiary and fancy doors. They speak Albanian, an Indo-European language with traces of Greek and Latin - and the lek is their monetary denomination, which trades at one hundred to one on the dollar. Their food is excellent, a melange of Greek, Turkish, and Italian cuisine, all very fresh and legume-y.
~ Michael Paterniti
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.
~ Jeremy Miller
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
~ Benito Mussolini
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
~ Benito Mussolini
Coming from an Italian family, my parents had supermarkets and they said I had to take over as any son should take over the family business - I copped a lot of flak when I said 'no.'
~ Adriano Zumbo
Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
~ Peter Gabriel