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Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church! — Hilary Duff

I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight] — Tom Gleisner

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

You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they sat, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato. — Jenna Evans Welch

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

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

...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both. — Judith Works

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. — Fanny Burney

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

...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 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

As the bitterroots, necessary for the healing but unpleasant to taste. (What Father Sacco's parishioners say about the man.) — Joseph C. Sciarillo

I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes in an Alfa Spider. — Rory Bremner

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life. — Georges Bizet

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

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

It's finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going. — Mona Rodriguez

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

Do you remember Italy? — E. M. Forster

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit. — Roberto Benigni

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti. — Mario Batali

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.) — Maria Grazia Swan

Some people come up to me and say "You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia" And I say "Well, here in America, you're annoying ... " — Mike Birbiglia

So, you invite a wild rabbit living in Italy to a party on the island of Crete. What's it supposed to do, swim there? Its little tux would get wet. — Rick Riordan

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver. — Simon Hoggart

George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy. — Conan O'Brien

Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo. — David Coleman

I think my Italy career is over - it's only right they begin a new era without me. Besides, you have to run a lot under Conte! — Antonio Cassano

Why would you come to Italy to see Spanish steps? That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it? — Rick Riordan

I would love to take a road trip across Italy in an Aston Martin S Coupe. — Esha Gupta

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war. — Benito Mussolini

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy. — Bill Rancic

Sara loved Nicolo's quiet affection far more than the yearning and lust she saw on Umberto's face. — Mirella Sichirollo Patzer

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

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for. — James May

The beauty of Florence made up for many ugly things he saw in his work. (Commissario Garini's view of Florence,Italy.) — Beate Boeker

Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso] — Kirsten Arcadio

Clara," he says quietly. "I think it's time you told me about what happened in Italy. — Cynthia Hand

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!] — Maria Grazia Swan

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great. — David Millar

The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.] — Franco Di Mare

The country's gone mad...So much anger. — Michelle Saftich

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself] — Maria Grazia Swan

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy. — Adriano Giannini

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. — Edmund Phelps

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

Italy is another Pack's territory. You're a guest; make sure that you are a polite one.
God, I hope he told Heather that. — Elizabeth Morgan

In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices. — Gia Coppola

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S — Patrik Sinkewitz

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. — Fanny Burney

Maybe he would not run away after all, even if exposed to all her family's idiosyncrasies. [Carlina's biggest fear about Stefano] — Beate Boeker

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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