I am very proud to be Italian.
[for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (. . . ) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (. . . ) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes. . . I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question. . . yes.
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose. . . mine!
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions. . . the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.
Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics. . . but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .
80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.