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Quotes About Italian

I'm sorry for Italian football; there's no desire to improve Italian football.
~ Massimiliano Allegri
I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.
~ Daniel Boulud
Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It's all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it's good for you.
~ Lidia Bastianich
I like to eat pizza and spaghetti pomodoro, and I'm crazy for dessert. I like all of them: cassata, cheesecake, biscuits.
~ Stefano Gabbana
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
~ Debi Mazar
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
~ Dennis Farina
Donatello, you had better take one of those gay, boyish artists for your companion," said Miriam, when she found the Italian youth at her side.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Because I am interested in Colón, I bought a copy of the translation when I spotted it in a used-book store. Part of a series the Italian
~ Charles C. Mann
Did you ever read Carlo Levi?" "No." "You should—if you like Tolstoy. He wrote beautifully about Italian peasants. My people, once. He had a soul like Tolstoy. 'The future has an ancient heart.' I think I have that right.
~ Chris Bohjalian
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
~ Diego Della Valle
I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
~ Stephan El Shaarawy
The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.
~ Isabella Rossellini
Father Jim was sent to jail in a special West Virginia prison filled with politicians, tycoons, confidence men, hedge fund managers, gamblers, and finance company executives, every one of them his least favorite kind of person. The local bishop arranged for him to give services in the cramped chapel, but only two Italian gentlemen regularly showed up, wearing sunglasses in the windowless room.
~ tim gautreaux
David made a small head gesture indicative of doubt. 'Look at it this way,' he said. 'They're all male figures, all of Italian origin. Maybe standing about all day being admired is what they like doing best.
~ Tom Holt
Relations between the Facist regime and the American government were rapidly cooling. Italian newspapers did nothing to help, charging that Jews ruled the United States. They offered a list of the all-Jewish makeup of what was said to be the likely next American cabinet, headed by the President Bernard Baruch and Vice President Albert Einstein. Leon Trotsky was slated to be secretary of war; the face that he was neither American nor lived in the country was apparently no impediment.
~ Kertzer, David I.
Amico, che amico! Amico 'e chi? - Raccolte a tulipano le cinque dita della mano destra, altalenò quel fiore nella ipotiposi digito interrogativa tanto in uso presso gli Apuli.
~ Carlo Emilio Gadda
The events of the world do not form an orderly queue, like the English. They crowd around chaotically, like Italians.
~ Carlo Rovelli
La forza che tiene incollati i quarks all'interno dei protoni e dei neutroni è generata da particelle che i fisici, con poco senso del ridicolo, chiamano «gluoni», dall'inglese glue, colla. In italiano si tradurrebbe «colloni», ma fortunatamente usano tutti il nome inglese.
~ Carlo Rovelli
LEE'S BREAD DIPPING SAUCE ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried rosemary 1 teaspoon dried basil 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup really good quality extra-virgin olive oil Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Put in a shallow pan or bowl. Pour olive oil over the spices. Serve with Italian or French bread. (You can add more oil if needed.)
~ Carol J. Perry
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again.
~ George Miller
The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.
~ George Miller
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
~ Charles Lamb
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
~ George Miller
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
~ Jack Kerouac