#italy

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#after #architecture #cradle #daring #elaboration

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ↗

— Giovannino Guareschi

#don-camillo #humour #italy #priesthood #catholicism

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#attention #before #ever #germany #i

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#britain #debris #debts #dollars #extent

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#granted #italy #light #nobody #takes

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#came #clouds #felt #good #had

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#any #asked #cottage #could #habitation

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#better #coffee #coming #coming home #crave

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. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

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

#basically #brazil #catch #cultures #extremely