Italian Quotes

Which is very easy. It actually is a little Italian dessert. It's like a mousse ... kind of like ice cream.

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

I didn't speak Italian when I got to Italy. I had taken a couple of lessons and did a year in college, but in six months, I became regionally submersed to the point that I can curse in dialect.

Winning the Italian Cup also gave us more confidence, serenity. I thought we were on that level last year, but this time we won't have to go through a settling in period.

It's the Italian way of expressing luxury. Based on the Italian DNA, product can not change every season.

We proved to the people of Italy and to the Italian federation that we can play at this level. We can play with the big boys.

Berlusconi's conflict of interests is well noted. If he loses, that will diminish. But Italian media has always been politicized, to the left and the right, and that will continue.

French and Italian cooking have been elevated to a really high art form.

It's great to know the location of the Italian or Chinese restaurant. These guides are very cheap and easy to assemble and it goes a long way creating a positive impression with renters.

The Secret History of Italian Cinema. I was accused by a lot of Italian critics of having lost any sense of the institutions by opening the gates of the festival to trash cinema.

I really grew very tired of all the Italian mafia movies that parade fancy silk suits, diamond pinky rings and lavish homes. Moviegoers may fantasize about living like that, but they can't relate to it. Guys in the Irish mafia are different from the Italians. Irish gangsters mostly dress like working-class people, drive average cars, and enjoy a good barstool conversation, just like me and you. They just happen to make their money illegally and are exceedingly violent behind closed doors.

The protesters were determined to kill the consul and his family when they attacked the Italian consulate in Benghazi. These protesters did not target Denmark because they have no idea about Denmark.

Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, [the empty bottle] was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

This (IPO) represents a test for the sector. We've been disappointed with results - and this isn't an Italian phenomenon, but a European one.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

I've got the Italian descent, I guess. I don't know if I can say I'm a full-fledged New Yorker, but hopefully I can be by the time I'm there.

Italian Olympic sports people should be proud that they went out and played the best teams and played hard.

Honor in Italian culture means you don't do anything to disgrace your family. In 'The Sopranos' it's OK to cheat and steal as long as you don't do it to the boss.

But I'm Italian,' I told him.

In the past we've seen the likes of Italian Gilberto Simoni and the German Erik Zabel compete in South Australia, but not really shine.

It got bloody and it got messy. There was a huge amount of work done by a tremendous Italian stunt team ... and we'd be thrown into the melee.

It is clear that Italians have decided to turn the page ... and close another very ugly chapter in Italian history.

We never knew their story because they were from Jersey, and because they were blue-collar high-school dropouts ? Italian kids with no glamour quotient at all.