#italian

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#difficulty #italians #just #up #who

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

— Giorgio Napolitano

#effort #exempt #italian #italy #itself

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

#father #four #god #good #guys

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#business #care #find #forward #guy

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#area #because #buck #came #decorating

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. ↗

— Steve Earle

#english #form #guys #imitating #italian

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#bread #film #going #i #italian

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#australia #australian #different #different types #distinctive

Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half the words are missing.” “Half?” “Well, some,” she amended. “But truly, that’s not the problem.” He blinked, waiting for her to continue. She did. Of course. “I don’t think Italian is the author’s native tongue,” she said. “The author of the dictionary?” he queried. “Yes. It’s not terribly idiomatic. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dictionary #humor #italian #humor