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Quotes About Sicilian

I typically like Sicilian pizza.
~ Roy Choi
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
~ Al Pacino
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
~ Chazz Palminteri
Most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
~ Al Pacino
I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
~ Cyndi Lauper
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
~ Martin Scorsese
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
~ Maria Grazia Cucinotta
When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.
~ Jessie James Decker
Brian who made every outing something incredible, like the Sicilian picnics in The Leopard, where servants, silverware, kids, grandparents, coaches, ice, chickens, the whole nine Victorian yards, went on the picnic too.
~ Eve Babitz
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
~ Christopher Buckley
I don't do favors. I accumulate debts. —Ancient Sicilian motto
~ Michael Lewis
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
~ Lee Child
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
~ Domenico Dolce
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line, dudes.
~ Charles Stross
When Lawrence came to Taormina, Verga was living in Catania, a few miles further down the eastern Sicilian coast, and in the autumn of 1921, when his writings first attracted Lawrence's attention, he was an octogenarian with only a few months left to live. Shortly after Verga's death in January 1922, Lawrence wrote to a correspondent in New York that 'Poor old Verga went and died exactly as I was going to see him in Catania. But he was 82 years old.
~ Giovanni Verga
Tessio It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
~ Godfather, The
Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..........(thump)
~ Vizzini
The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade spaghetti drying on the clothesline. After the war Russell Bufalino liked the fact that I went right through his town. My
~ Charles Brandt
Giancana was taken care of in his kitchen in the back of the head and then under the chin six times, Sicilian style, to signify he was careless with his mouth. It looked like it was done by some old friend that was close enough to him to be frying sausages in olive oil with him. Russell often said to me: "When in doubt have no doubt.
~ Charles Brandt
We were told there was a village nearby that might enjoy our skills." "You were misinformed," Buttercup told him. "There is no one, not for many miles." "Then there will be no one to hear you scream," the Sicilian said, and he jumped with frightening agility toward her face. William Goldman, The Princess Bride
~ Cornelia Funke
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
~ Lee Child
He pointed into the pizza box, and when I looked closely, I could see a tiny bit of green wire sticking out from under the thick Sicilian crust.
~ James Patterson
Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
~ William Goldman
I understand completely what you are trying to do, the Sicilian said finally, and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
~ William Goldman