#italian

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inferno #italian-medieval-poetry #lustful #passion #reason

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#irishmen #italians #multiculturalism #native-americans #paternalism

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#beat #care #go #i #image

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#argentinean #aspects #attractive #attractiveness #i

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#cast #constantly #get #grew #i

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#back #cause #collection #day #design

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ↗

— George Miller

#days #eating #five #food #hungry

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#difficulty #italians #just #up #who

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#effort #exempt #italian #italy #itself

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#business #care #find #forward #guy