Italian Quotes - page 10

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries. (Romano Prodi)
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. View quote
Sophia Bush
Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest. View quote
Philip Yancey
Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. View quote
Frances Mayes
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. View quote
Hugh Jackman
I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue. View quote
Adriana Lima
As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me. View quote
Debi Mazar
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. View quote
Debi Mazar
Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food. View quote
Debi Mazar
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married. (Gianni Versace)
My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out. View quote
Jay Parini
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state. View quote
Donna Leon
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. View quote
Zoe Saldana
The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian! View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to. View quote
Lea Michele
I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk. (Lea Michele)
I love that I've become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love cooking. I seem to make them comfortable. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables or herbs or adding a dash of olive oil. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions. View quote
Lidia Bastianich