Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won’t score lots of goals, but they won’t concede many, either.
As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.
One thing they don’t have out here in California is Rita’s Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
I look forward to going to Chicago because it’s where I grew up, and the food there is so munch. Especially during the winter, I get deep dish pizza or Italian beef, and it warms me up. It’s something I don’t normally get, especially here in L.A. where you’re always trying to be healthy.
My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It’s supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
Italian managers don’t enjoy themselves at all.
I’m half Italian, and on my mom’s side, they’ve aged amazingly, and all they’ve put on their faces is olive oil.
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer’s time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
I used to eat Danny Kaye’s food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.
Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of ‘American Vogue’, ‘Italian Vogue’, ‘British Vogue’, and ‘French Vogue’.
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, ‘Role model!’ Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.
Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled ‘smoked mozzarella,’ melts fantastically well.
A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.
The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.
Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.
There are teams I like a lot like Inter and AC Milan, so I’d think about going to the Italian league.
I cook stuff that I picked up from my husband’s mother. I thought that would be a good way to his heart, you know. I love to cook Italian and French, also.
Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.
Look to the Premier League. Are there any black managers? Look at the Italian league? Are there any black managers? The list goes on.
I’d like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they’re not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.
I got recognized more by little sweet Italian fans in six days than I’ve ever been recognized in L.A. in six years.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
I always wanted ‘Sideways’ to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.
Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.
I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.
I can’t speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it’s frustrating because I can’t really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can’t understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, ‘this acting thing is awesome.’
I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the ‘Adagio,’ and I pull it out with all the honesty I have – whether they’re Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French – they will react in the same way.
When I go to Colombia or Mexico, I speak Spanish. When I go to Italy, I speak Italian. When I’m in Germany, I speak German. Would I expect them to speak English in these countries? No. I mean, great if they do, but no. Would I be offended if in Spain they say we speak Spanish? No. If I was an immigrant there, no.
I’m an average American. As I joke, I’m the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.
I’m a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother’s been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.
The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
