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I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet. — Phil Daniels

Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly. — Francis Russell

Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world. — Nancy Petralia

You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that's a dream of theirs, to go into Italy. — Donald Trump

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians. — Tommy Lasorda

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

Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed. — Massimo Carlotto

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background. — Nouriel Roubini

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

...if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice] — Tom Gleisner

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess. — Manolo Blahnik

The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village. — Tonya Russo Hamilton

The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age] — Maria Hudgins

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy. — Cate Blanchett

In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily — Big Pun

We've grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply. — Nancy Petralia

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers ... — Bob Hope

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest. — Victor Hugo

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. — Christian Lacroix

People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future. — William Manchester

Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II — Charles M. Blow

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy. — E. M. Forster

Do you remember Italy? — E. M. Forster

Where shall we honeymoon? Will you take me to Italy, to see the Botticellis?"
"I will take you anywhere you wish. Anywhere under the sky. — Tessa Dare

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it. — John Ridley

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy. — Claudia Cardinale

GDP of only just over Italy's that's trying to maintain — Jeff Wise

Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy. — E. M. Forster

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think. — Bill Vaughan

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs. — Valeria Golino

It was Italy after all. People probably hit each other all the time. — Lev Grossman

Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living. — Andrei Codrescu

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy — Alan Parry

...she felt safe with Nicolo, and feared nothing. — Mirella Sichirollo Patzer

A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve. — John Litwinovich

Carlina with her cat-like eyes who didn't fit into any category he knew. (Commissario Garini's difficulty with his prime suspect.) — Beate Boeker

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch. — James Taylor

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. — Mario Batali

David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now. — Gianluca Vialli

You may have the universe if I may have Italy — Giuseppe Verdi

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. — Bertrand Russell

Carlina felt as if sudden sunshine had filled the kitchen ... [Carlina's reaction to Stefano Garini] — Beate Boeker

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

If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity. — Andre Aciman

From outside Italy, dial your international access code, Italy's country code (39) then the number (including the '0'). — Cristian Bonetto

In Italy, age is an asset. — Isa Miranda

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy, — Guido Calabresi

If you want to catch a glimpse of Italy as it has been lived for centuries, rather than simply something that looks good on postcards, come to Genoa. — Nicholas Walton

I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament] — Maria Martin

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad. — Martha Gellhorn

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ... — Henrietta Szold

We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

She'd fallen for him. How stupid. Secretary falls in love with her boss. What a tepid thing to do. — Beate Boeker

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish. — Tom McGurk

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy. — Alice Meynell

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy! — Barbara Conelli

She shook her head, then started fanning herself with her wallet. "Only in Italy. — Jenna Evans Welch

Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore. — Frances Mayes

The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder] — Maria Hudgins

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

The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper. — Bill Buford

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. — Carroll Quigley

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. — Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Why don't you write my family in Italy," she said, "This must be a right empty house without the touch of a woman. — C.B. Overdorf

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy. — Paolo Sorrentino

The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables. — Mary Shelley

You wouldn't hurt a virgin, would you? Where do you think they get virgin olive oil, huh? Don't you think we're pathetic enough as it is? — Italy

Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter. — Joseph C. Sciarillo

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. — Edmund Phelps

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

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded. — Timothy Holme

hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island. — Bruce Springsteen

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. — Nadia Giosia

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

...loafing in the easy chair of one's body. — Umberto Bartolomeo

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. — Lin Yutang

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

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine. — Carlo Rubbia

You are what you read. — Nancy Petralia

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

In Italy, you sometimes get the impression they'd be happier to lose the Ppe than lose their right to drive like maniacs. — Jeremy Clarkson

Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good. — Peter Leonard

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work. — Richard Rogers

Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own. — Jen Lin-Liu

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

He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy. — Robert Hellenga

That's it?" Nico demanded. "Hecate sent us halfway across Italy so you could tell us to eat barley? — Rick Riordan

Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison. — Judith Works

Julie went to her hotel room window to check that the Campo, the central square of Siena, Italy, was still out there. — Candida Martinelli

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. — Thomas Paine

Italy's siren call lures us more and more. — Frances Mayes

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. — Frances Mayes

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. — Ian Rush

...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume. — Umberto Bartolomeo

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul. — E. M. Forster