Gianfranco Quotes & Sayings

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear. — Gianfranco Zola

If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals]. — Gianfranco Fini

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. — Gianfranco Ferre

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences — Gianfranco Fini

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century. — Gianfranco Fini

I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant. — Gianfranco Fini

What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group. — Lewis Black

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet. — Phil Daniels

A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality. — Gianfranco Ferre

Design is ... above all an effort to improve reality ... I always try to begin with considerations of its function ... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on ... — Gianfranco Frattini

He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England. — Gianfranco Zola

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. — Gianfranco Ferre

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you. — Gianfranco Zola

The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities ... — Gianfranco Ferre

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore — Gianfranco Fini

If you ask me:An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. ( ... ) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family. — Gianfranco Fini

With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades. — Gianfranco Fini

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is. — Gianfranco Zola

Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told me he wants to host a "conference for two" one day. It is sure to be the most exclusive conference ticket on the market. — Tim Leberecht

Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in. — Alex Ferguson

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. — Gianfranco Fini

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots. — Gianfranco Fini

If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy — Gianfranco Fini

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. — Gianfranco Fini

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison. — Gianfranco Zola

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat. — Paul Valery

As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo. — Gianfranco Zola

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. — Ursula Andress

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith. — Jeffrey Kluger

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president. — Gianfranco Fini

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget. — Gianfranco Zola

And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name. — G.K. Chesterton