Italy Quotes

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

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.

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

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.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

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.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

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.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

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.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Italy is a geographical expression.

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

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.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

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.

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.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

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.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

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.

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.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.