Frequent Italian Quotes & Sayings

I am not as crazy as people think. — Tom Sizemore

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't. — Ellen Raskin

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses. — William Golding

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. — Carrie Chapman Catt

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge. — Emilie Autumn

While Nice is just a place in France, happiness will always be a foreign state of mind. But fuck it. Let's rage. — The Betches

The invisible world of thought and conduct had been the frequent subject of his musings; but the other, tangible world was close to him too, spreading like a rich populous plain between himself and the distant heights of speculation. The old doubts, the old dissatisfactions, hung on the edge of consciousness; but he was too profoundly Italian not to linger awhile in that atmosphere of careless acquiescence that is so pleasant a medium for the unhampered enjoyment of life. Some day, — Edith Wharton

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants. — John Lancaster Spalding

Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth. — Dan Simmons

Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with flavor and the color of a sunset. Or perhaps my wife leaned down and touched my efforts with a kettle-blessing to keep me safe. — Eli Brown

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things. — Bill Rancic

Sexual expression is so powerful a way of bonding with others and so devastating a way of hurting others that it can never be reduced to a mere matter of personal preferences. Sexual desires have immense capacities to order or disorder the social world. Because of this, the social meanings and expressions of sexual desire, connections, and taboos are an organizing component of human societies: Who wants whom? Who belongs with whom? Who is forbidden to whom? What do infractions mean, and what are their consequences? — Rachel Adler