Italian Nonna Quotes & Sayings

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Jonathan Swift

Intimidation needs response, bait needs biting. If you do neither, the attacker has nothing to build on. — C.J. Cherryh

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. — Beck

a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent — Traci Andrighetti

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages. — Amy Bloom

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live? — Jennifer Ryan

[In remake] you've got to have something new to say, or technology that wasn't available, or a new chapter that kind of speaks to this generation of fans. They've got some unique assets, so we're certainly discussing those things. — Thomas Tull

If one accepts Jean Piaget's famous definition of mature intelligence as the ability to coordinate between multiple perspectives (or possible perspectives) one can see, here, precisely how bureaucratic power, at the moment it turns to violence, becomes literally a form of infantile stupidity. — David Graeber

If Nonna sensed weakness, she'd zero in for the kill — Rosie Genova

There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.) — Traci Andrighetti

Agapa Know what that is? — Frank Corso

Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike. — Marlon James

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion. — Thomas Lux

With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug until the floor got too uneven to navigate, and then to move house. — Mark Lawrence

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go. — Peter Bondra