…to give a clear picture of the whole scene of Italian gastronomy.

I wish Italy would stop being a crybaby. I wish he would kick his bad habit of wanting to eat pasta everywhere. I wish he would stop getting a stomachache every time he ate geleto....

erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the...

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

We have no problem in our formation. This is a result of our hard work. I’m going to show what I’ve learned from my experiences in Italy from now on. I’m going to play my...

If there are no compensations for the Mezzogiorno (Italy’s poor southern region) then Italy will ask that the enlargement eastwards be slowed down.

We proved to the people of Italy and to the Italian federation that we can play at this level. We can play with the big boys.

The terror threatens all of us. You had seen terror attacks in Britain, in Spain, in Italy, in Turkey, in Russia, in Egypt, in Jordan, in Saudi Arabia. This is a threat, really, to the...

There was a great scene over some violets. They picked violets and filled all the vases in the room of these very Miss Alans who have failed to come to Cissie Villa. Poor little ladies!...

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

This shows that it is possible, though certainly not easy, to break into Italy. This could be a trigger that opens up the Italian banking system to other foreign takeover bids.

Do you know how fast you are walking? … To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30… 🙂

Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?”Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of...

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you,” said Chase.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually,...

You don’t need to learn English to seduce an American woman, you only need to learn one word: ‘bella.’ If you say it, their belts will snap and pants fall from their hips.If I ever...

For next year, we’ve already talked about him riding the Tour of Italy to win the Tour of Italy,

Courage and love.”She did not answer. From her feet the ground sloped sharply into view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems,...

What did he say? He is in love? My brain stops, my heart stops, my blood ceases to flow. My appendages go weak and cold, and there is a suspension of all space and time...

It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Italy … is the least generous of the developed world with regard to aid and that is a shame. We ask the political class, left or right, to change that,

I only served with them 64 days as a mechanic in Italy,

A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day’s adventure to evolve.

…they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)

In Italy there are about 60 million people and we know howhigh is the percentage of morons on national soil. However, inChina there are about 1.4 billion people and in India almost 1.3billion. Therefore I...

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

There is always some truth to fiction.

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

I didn’t expect much from Italy, but Russia I thought would be better. I don’t think they played with much heart.

Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena’s view on Gran Sasso]

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

I’m not going to bury us, but we got the short end of the stick. Two of our three games are against unbelievable teams, and even Italy’s no slouching team. It’s going to be very...

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

(…) compor meticulosamente o cadastro afetivo e o retrato fantástico-histórico de uma comunidade e de uma de suas remotas jornadas de meio século atras. E isso não com os instrumentos racionais, a ficha, o documento,...

The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].

I promise you a love affair with a sun-bathed Austrian princess beyond anything you imagine—in love, in beauty, in intensity. A love that will power you to the end of our time together. You are...

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

We expected Italy to be weak. I don’t know if we would have predicted that score, but we’re not going to apologize for winning by that much. It’s the Olympic Games and we’ve got a...

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella’s son catches on!]

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don’t tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute...

I picked up a snake once. In Italy.””Why did you do that?””For a bet.””Was it poisonous?””We didn’t know. That was the point of the bet.””Did it bite you?””Of course.””Why of course?””It wouldn’t be much of...

La strega prese l’ostia e la mise controluce, quando la mangiò si appiccicò al palato.Lui le diede il vino. “Qui ci sono i segreti del mondo.”La strega bevve. “Ecco perché sa di aceto.