Italian Quotes - Page 16

• (Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Goodbye, Way, Gypsy

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.32, Laurel Leaf

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• He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, "Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Hands, Learning Something New

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.59, A&C Black

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• I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Years, Rose

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.24, A&C Black

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• I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

  Michael Cerveris

  Song, School, Yale

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• On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

  Umberto Eco

  Latin, Reflection, Style

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Father, Home

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• We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Encouragement, Government, Ambitious

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• Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mean, Order, Accomplishment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.68, Penguin

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• Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

  Patricia Briggs

  Engineering, Cooking, Chocolate

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.159, Penguin

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• Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mother, Brother, Believe

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• My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Beautiful, Simple, Years

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• I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

  Roger Federer

  Rome, Good As It Gets, Sucker

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• 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.

  Colin Firth

  East, Serious, Irony

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Growing Up, Use, Tone

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• The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Men, Trying, Looks

  "Glamour is so important". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

  Lady Gaga

  Baby, Want, Donors

  "Lady GaGa: 'I want Italian sperm donor'" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. February 1, 2012.

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• One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Influence, Bernini

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• And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Winter, Garden, Alive

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Appreciation, Things In Life, Culture

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• I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Food, Pigs, Three

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• 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.

  Hugh Jackman

  War, Coffee, Hard Work

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• But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hot, Situation

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• Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

  Linda Evangelista

  Two, Months, Slam

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• I love the Italian culture, it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes, I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Attitude, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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