Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry McGuire

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

Karl Lagerfeld

Italian craftsmanship is really our treasure. So we're very proud of that and we try to do everything by hand.

Italy has been split in half. This is an opportunity for Italians to come together, whether we're in Italy or living abroad.

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Benito Mussolini

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

Benito Mussolini

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

Benito Mussolini

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

Benito Mussolini

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

Benito Mussolini

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

Benito Mussolini

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!

Benito Mussolini

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.

Elizabeth Bowen

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

Bruce Bennett

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

Barbara Steele

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Dario Argento

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

Eduard Hanslick

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

Isabella Rossellini

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

Alfred Molina

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

Grazia Deledda

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

Adriana Lima

I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.

Antonio Tabucchi

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Louis Tomlinson

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

Adriano Giannini

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.

Carlo Collodi

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

Dave Grohl

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

Dario Argento

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

Colin Firth

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Isabella Rossellini

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Dino De Laurentiis

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Peter Eisenman

In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.

David Bowie

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.