Quotes and Sayings about Italy
"Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: War, Cities, Disorder, Italy)
"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Doubt, Italy, Party)
"Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful."
- Giovanni Agnelli
(Related: Thought, America, Europe, Italy)
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
- Giovanni Agnelli
(Related: Italy, Party)
"In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god."
- Josef Albers
(Related: God, Artist, Italy, Now)
"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary."
- Giulio Andreotti
(Related: War, Italy)
"I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Family, Italy, Visit)
"In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Italy, Judges, Old)
"The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: France, Germany, Italy)
"As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible."
- Mario Batali
(Related: Family, Eating, Italy)
"We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury."
- Franz Beckenbauer
(Related: Country, End, England, Italy, Luxury, Play, Right, Spain, Winter)
"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Idea, Belgium, Countries, Europe, France, Italy)
"In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity."
- Roberto Benigni
(Related: History, Country, Fascism, Humanity, Italy, World)
"In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: Sex, People, Football, France, Italy, Media, Right, Spain)
"I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: Time, Fans, First, Football, Italy)
"The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs."
- Silvio Berlusconi
(Related: Thought, Italy, Needs, Responsibility, Tradition)
"The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy."
- Emma Bonino
(Related: Attention, Italy)
"The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses."
- Emma Bonino
(Related: Italy)
"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."
- Fanny Burney
(Related: Building, Italy, Ruin, Traveling)
"We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends."
- Robert Byrd
(Related: Men, Being, Germany, Italy, Law, Laws, Majority, Motives, Nation)
"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
- Nicolas Cage
(Related: Family, Grudges, Italy, Passion)
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Hollywood, Italy)
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Italy)
"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well."
- Marcel Carne
(Related: Italy, Language, Trouble, Understanding, Years)
"Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage."
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
(Related: Legal, Adoption, Country, Diversity, Identity, Italy, Protection, Uniqueness)
"I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Italy)
"I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking."
- Clarence Clemons
(Related: Love, Health, Cooking, France, Growing up, Italy, Spain)
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
- Jonathan Coe
(Related: Books, Countries, France, Italy, Relationships)
"During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life."
- Hugh Dalton
(Related: Life, First, Italy)
"In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there."
- Dana Delany
(Related: Family, Children, Europe, Generations, Italy, Parents, Thinking)
"I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag."
- Bill Dixon
(Related: Work, Italy, Running)
"It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time."
- Philip Dunne
(Related: Time, England, Italy, Living, Poems, Poets, Spring)
"No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy."
- Carmen Electra
(Related: Food, Italy)
"In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion."
- Edward Everett
(Related: Society, Atoms, Italy)
"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."
- Oriana Fallaci
(Related: Europe, Freedom, Italy, Loss)
"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference."
- Luis Figo
(Related: England, Interest, Italy, Play, Spain)
"We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Power, Fascism, Italy, Today)
"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
- Dario Fo
(Related: Italy, Man, Socialism)
"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Italy, Taste)
"Italy will always have the best food."
- Diane von Furstenberg
(Related: Food, Italy, Will)
"Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles."
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
(Related: Men, Applause, Fate, Italy, Universe, Will)
"You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Being, Culture, Italy, Rules)
"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
- Umberto Guidoni
(Related: Experience, People, Beginning, Italy, Pretty)
"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
- Umberto Guidoni
(Related: Possibility, Agreement, Class, Italy, Mission, Space)
"The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them."
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: Success, America, Building, First, France, Italy, Nations, states, Understanding, United, Will)
"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Absurdity, Childhood, Insanity, Italy)
"Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Travel, Italy, Months, Years)
"Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns."
- Tab Hunter
(Related: Work, Hollywood, Italy)
"If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries."
- Michelle Hunziker
(Related: Countries, Germany, Italy, Stress, Television)
"Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: People, Internet, Italy, Machine, Media)
"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Inferiority, Italy, Man)
"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Church, America, Country, Hollywood, Italy, Spain)
"France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Time, Confidence, France, Italy, Nations, Will)
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
- Christian Lacroix
(Related: Elegance, Individualism, Italy, Taste)
"Italy is a divided country without a center."
- Christian Lacroix
(Related: Country, Italy)
"In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine."
- Robin Leach
(Related: Food, Life, Work, Italy, Wine)
"My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy."
- Amanda Lear
(Related: Bed, Italy, Talk)
"In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian."
- Sugar Ray Leonard
(Related: Funny, Hair, Italy, Kids)
"Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one."
- Arto Lindsay
(Related: Italy, Years)
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Italy)
"When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York."
- Joe Mantegna
(Related: Family, Wife, Care, Fun, Italy)
"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
- Harry Mathews
(Related: Dream, Being, Fantasy, France, Italy, Language)
"I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood."
- Debi Mazar
(Related: Time, Americans, Fun, Hollywood, Italy, World)
"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."
- Debi Mazar
(Related: Food, HusbFact, Italy)
"Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before."
- Ed McMahon
(Related: Italy, Treasure, Venice)
"Italy is a geographical expression."
- Prince Metternich
(Related: Expression, Italy)
"In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: Italy, Losing, Soldiers)
"Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: Being, Italy, Leaders, Russia)
"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
- Ennio Morricone
(Related: Hollywood, Italy)
"When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing."
- Gerry Mulligan
(Related: Italy, Writing)
"In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you."
- Ruud van nistelrooy
(Related: Life, Countries, Fans, Italy, Spain)
"Italy and Spain really are not my countries."
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
(Related: Countries, Italy, Spain)
"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Heart, Italy)
"We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina."
- Michel Patini
(Related: Italy)
"I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time."
- Michel Patini
(Related: Time, Career, Football, Italy, Running)
"Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places."
- Alessandro Del Piero
(Related: Time, Quality, Games, Italy, Play)
"But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Europe, Influence, Italy, Weight, World)
"Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Italy, Old, Poor)
"The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Society, Age, Italy, Now, Old, Population, Question)
"I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Time, Italy, President, Want, Years)
"To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain."
- Carroll Quigley
(Related: Day, Influence, Italy, Spain)
"You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America."
- Kenneth Rexroth
(Related: Life, America, Italy)
"I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa."
- Claudio Reyna
(Related: Fans, Italy, Soccer, Will)
"I think I feel automatically at home in Italy."
- Boyd Rice
(Related: Home, Italy)
"Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country."
- Ian Rush
(Related: Country, Italy)
"I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country."
- Ian Rush
(Related: Country, Italy, Living)
"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Love, First, First love, Italy, Spring)
"I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play."
- Vincent Schiavelli
(Related: Italy, Play, Theater)
"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."
- Harry Seidler
(Related: Architecture, Europe, First, Italy)
"It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Thought, America, Democracy, Germany, Italy, Russia)
"I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all."
- Nancy Sinatra
(Related: American, Attention, Germany, Italy)
"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
- Gordon Sinclair
(Related: War, Americans, Germany, Italy)
"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: God, Cause, Enemies, Eyes, Hell, Italy, Open, Suspicion)
"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."
- Barbara Steele
(Related: Italy, Light)
"I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy."
- Bruce Sterling
(Related: Love, Time, Clouds, Italy, Sun)
"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
- Laurence Sterne
(Related: Italy, Providence)
"In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal."
- Lytton Strachey
(Related: EnglFrance, Glory, Italy, Literature, Shakespeare, Spain)
"Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to."
- Billy Tauzin
(Related: Italy, Venice, Water)
"Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia."
- Noah Taylor
(Related: Home, Italy, Living, Wilderness)
"It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever."
- Alberto Tomba
(Related: Possibility, Culture, February, Italy, Will)
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."
- Giuseppe Verdi
(Related: Italy, May, Universe)
"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: American, Cinema, English, Entertainment, France, Italy, Language, World)
"It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country."
- Mary Wesley
(Related: Mother, Children, Country, France, Italy, Pretty)