Everybody Wants To Be Italian Quotes

#1. To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

Lionel Tiger

#2. Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

Chris Moneymaker

#3. The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

William Harvey

#4. Well you're slim and you're weak
You've got the teeth of a hydra upon you.
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl.

Marc Bolan

#5. When homosexuals were repressed, you got Tennessee Williams. Today's tolerance got you Hilton Perez.

Lenny Bruce

#6. Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Adam Ferguson

#7. If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Stephen Leacock

#8. Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

Teddy Thompson

#9. You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing your tempestuous southerner impersonation.

Hilary Mantel

#10. In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

Al Pacino

#11. We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Michael Bloomberg

#12. A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Anthony Trollope

#13. If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

Lloyd Kaufman

#14. Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Elizabeth Edwards

#15. I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

Martin Scorsese

#16. As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

Nicholas D'Agosto

#17. But women aren't broken versions of men; they're women.

Emily Nagoski

#18. There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

Romano Prodi

#19. Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

Christopher Walken

#20. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Idries Shah