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Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. — Michael Lewis

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish. — Arne Glimcher

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food. — Christy Carlson Romano

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. — Aida Turturro

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. — Thomas Tusser

He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish. — Sylvain Reynard

I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini]. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese. — Marie-Chantal Claire

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. — Robert Englund

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery. — Sandro Veronesi

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) — Elizabeth Gilbert

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again. — George Miller

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. — Heather Matarazzo

I don't want you to leave. I want you to stay. — Olga Goa

It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian. — Graham Spanier

Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime! — Stephen Colbert

The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. — Oscar Wilde

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform. — Rodrigo Rato

When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization — Joe Novella

I was not supposed to end up freezing my ass off in a remake of Harry Potter meets The Italian Job by way of Fargo. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day! — Brenda Song

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. — Benito Mussolini

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine. — Nicole Trunfio

This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache. — J. B. Smoove

The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests. — Tim Weiner

If you were three times poor, I would still have paid attention to you and fell head over heels in love with you. — Olga Goa

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt

I think the word 'pleasure' is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning. — Olga Goa

If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes. — Olga Goa

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. — Jen Lancaster

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married. — Gianni Versace

Scusi mia bella*, but it runs in the blood of all Italians to be skillful lovers. So you have to get used to this. — Olga Goa

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right. — Gia Coppola

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words. — Sophie Kinsella

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. — Alex Ferguson

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

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

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. — Chazz Palminteri

I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in. — Lapo Elkann

Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything — Elizabeth Gilbert

Children and fried food; the more you make, the better they come out. — Francine Segan

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess. — Anthony Michael Hall

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. — Bayard Taylor

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory. — David Coleman

There is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' — Benjamin Franklin

Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota. — Adriana Trigiani

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. — Patricia Highsmith

Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A — Jhumpa Lahiri

...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree. — Maria Gentile

Great Representation of the Art and Use of Fencing, written by the Italian maestro Ridolfo Capo Ferro — Cary Elwes

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is. — Mario Monicelli

And you haven't got a 'pause' button, have you? You are just uncontrollable! — Olga Goa

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. — Dolly Parton

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. — Allegra Huston

The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines. — Loretta Gatto-White

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day. — Benito Mussolini

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

I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year. — Danny Meyer

Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it's tied to a geographical territory, a country. Italian — Jhumpa Lahiri

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. — Jennifer Lopez

I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up. — Gia Coppola

Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy! — Henny Youngman

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino, — Jeremy Scott

He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian. — Stjepan Hauser

Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels - may make your panties explode. — Penny Reid

I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything. — Pauly D

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it. — Maynard James Keenan

That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed. — Michael Rispoli

There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.) — Traci Andrighetti

The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney. — Heidi Cullinan

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian. — Jhumpa Lahiri

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island — C.B. Murphy

"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul. — Dan Brown

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. — Benito Mussolini

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian. — Pauly D

Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it. — Camren Bicondova

He's too tired to squirm clear of her, which is good 'cause pinching and kissing and hugging will calm an Italian mother-person better than anything. — D. James Smith

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty] — Alberto Moravia

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian. — Q'orianka Kilcher

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love. — Leo Buscaglia

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.] — James Vescovi

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith. — Otto Skorzeny

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. — Peter Ustinov

The secret is that I am Italian. — Dennis Christopher

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. — Diane Von Furstenberg

So this pesto I enjoy so much is really an infamous Italian antisupernatural weapon? — Gail Carriger

Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento. — Edith Hahn Beer

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

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. — Indro Montanelli

The Japanese are easily influenced,
Italian's are infectious,
And German's are German's wherever they go. — Hidekaz Himaruya

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

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.' — Laura Prepon

a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent — Traci Andrighetti

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. — Bradley Cooper

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 studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. — Al D'Amato