Italian Nonna Sayings

#1. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#2. I'll do almost anything for a laugh.

Melissa McCarthy

#3. Once the ego has found an identity, it does not want to let go. Amazingly but not infrequently, the ego in search of a stronger identity can and does create illnesses in order to strengthen itself through them.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. ...a very costly simplicity, one can notice, but not the elegance of a woman who gives much thought to her clothes; rather that of one who knows she can make any rag attractive and does it unconsciously."

Excerpt From: Ayn Rand. "Night of January 16th.

Ayn Rand

#5. a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent

Traci Andrighetti

#6. I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

Rachel Maddow

#7. We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

Ralph Nader

#8. When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Michael Moriarty

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

Traci Andrighetti

#10. A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift

#11. In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Andrzej Wajda

#12. For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

Haile Gerima

#13. yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Amy Chua

#15. If Nonna sensed weakness, she'd zero in for the kill

Rosie Genova

#16. In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin