Authentic Italian Sayings

#1. It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

Graham Spanier

#2. To lose your prejudices you must travel.

Marlene Dietrich

#3. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.

Tzvetan Todorov

#5. Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

Jamie Bell

#6. My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

Vinny Guadagnino

#7. A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Peter F. Drucker

#8. Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.

Sarra Manning

#9. I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

Andrea Bocelli

#10. This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache.

J. B. Smoove

#11. It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.

Alice Munro

#12. I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

Kieran Hebden

#13. When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

Corey Haim

#14. In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick city - all human life passed through that establishment, and my time there remains a source of inspiration.

Kevin Barry

#15. I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

Sullivan Stapleton