#italia

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) ↗

— Jon Stewart

#humor #italian #jon-stewart #language #communication

You are the only woman I have ever made love to. ↗

— Avery Aster

#italian #love #romance #love

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#am #clan #getting #getting married #i

First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. It's the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis. ↗

— Beppe Severgnini

#italians #italy #humor

sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#humor #italian #patrillo #sicily #sophia

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#could #daily #daily life #diva #dressed

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#i #interesting #italian #maybe #team

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#around #carried #coming #everybody #films

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#american #east #east side #grew #i

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#consider #considered #doing #filmmaker #gonna