Mangia Mangia Quotes & Sayings

Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl. — Oscar Wilde

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?' — George Foreman

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me. — Chuck Yeager

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. — Nora Ephron

I don't have a Twitter account. — Anna Chlumsky

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity. — Ellen Glasgow

I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it! — Carl Panzram

Marty stayed busy as a chemistry major at Seattle University, — Jamie Ford

If indeed the universe posessed a mind, it was a cluttered one. And if corners such as these thrived in that mind, then the custodian was asleep, or, perhaps, drunk. — Steven Erikson

I hate musicals. There, I said it. — Aaron Paul

My goodness carina mia, you are so thin. You do not eat enough. Mangia, mangia, mangia! [Alicia's Italian mother's view of her daughter.] — Celia Conrad

What is the secret of your serenity?" a student asked Sophia
"Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable," she replied. — David W. Jones

I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through. — Owen Hart

We always ate with gusto...It would have offended the cook if we had nibbled or picked...Our mothers and zie [aunties] didn't inquire as to the states of our bellies; they just put the food on our plates.

'You only ask sick people if they're hungry,' my mother said. 'Everyone else must eat, eat!'

But when Italians say 'Mangia! Mangia!' they're not just talking about food. They're trying to get you to stay with them, to sit by them at the table for as long as possible. The meals that my family ate together- the many courses, the time in between at the table or on the mountain by the sea, the hours spent talking loudly and passionately and unyieldingly and laughing hysterically the way Neapolitans do- were designed to prolong our time together; the food was, of course, meant to nourish us, but it was also meant to satisfy, in some deeper way, our endless hunger for one another. — Sergio Esposito