#italian

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#arabic #began #book #british #cause

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

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#consider #cook #dinner #dinner party #drink

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#came #defence #fight #i #italian

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality. ↗

— Mario Monti

#government #help #hope #i #i hope that

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it. ↗

— Juan Manuel Fangio

#little #my time #needed #speak #time

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#buds #father #i #italian #mother

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#feet #head #i #italians #kick

Qualsiasi persona normale di tanto in tanto prova la tentazione di sputarsi nelle mani, issare la bandiera nera e cominciare a tagliare le gole. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#italiano #rage #anger

Non sono mai nato, non mi vergogno di essere nell'equivoco italiota, non mi interessano gli italiani. Qualunque governo come qualunque arte (o tutta l'arte borghese), tutta l'arte è rappresentazione di Stato, è statale. È uno stato che si assiste fin troppo, se no alla mediocrità chi ci pensa? La mediocrità, par excellence, è proprio lo Stato. Lo Stato dovrebbe smetterla di governare, ecco. Si può dare uno Stato senza governo, mi spiego? Non deve amministrare, deve lasciarlo fare a dei privati. ↗

— Carmelo Bene

#italiano #state #vita #art