Italian Quotes

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

~ Maria Grazia Swan

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

~ Maria Grazia Swan

In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

~ Jon Stewart

Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.

~ Leonardo Donofrio

Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.

~ A.a. Freda

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

~ Carl William Brown

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

~ Thomas M. Cirignano

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

~ Melina Marchetta

Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]

~ Maria Grazia Swan

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]

~ Marco Vichi

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

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

~ Domenico Dolce

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

~ Elisha Cuthbert

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

~ Wolfgang Puck

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

~ George Miller

I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

~ Malin Akerman

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

~ Jen Lancaster

Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

~ Hugh Jackman

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

~ Daniel Boulud

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

~ Walter Pater

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

~ Alessia Cara

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

~ Lady Gaga