Italian Quotes - Page 23

• Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Philadelphia, Cities, Community

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

  Michael Beschloss

  Country, Party, America

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• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Government, Agreement, Design Process

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• We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

  Dario Fo

  Expression, Church, Ugly

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• I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

  Norman Jewison

  Bread, Film, Adaptation

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

  Silvia Colloca

  Girl, Moving, Eye

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• I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

  David Markson

  Believe, Looks, Mets

  David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

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• My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

  Sebastian Bach

  Years, Style, Vocal

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• The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Writing, Use, Done

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• My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

  Tim Vine

  Party, Islands, Dresses

  "Tim Vine: the man behind the masterful one-liner" by William Langley, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 23, 2014.

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• I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Design, Guy

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• Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.

  Kató Lomb

  Mistake, Bridges, Venice

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• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  Camille Claudel

  Night, Men, Two

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• My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

  Susan Lucci

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli.

  Roman Coppola

  Shoes, Appreciate, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

  Elizabeth I

  Enemy, Lord, Let Me

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• I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

  Joe Strummer

  Book, Thinking, Phrases

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• The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Men, Tourists

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• As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

  Al D'Amato

  Responsibility, Special, Stereotype

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• In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

  Tom Conti

  Home, Past, Roots

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

  Marcella Hazan

  Mother, Children, Fall

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• If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

  Bonnie Bedelia

  Mean, Ideas, People

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

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• Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

  Mario Batali

  America, People, Taste

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• Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.143, Ballantine Books

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