Neapolitan Quotes

#1. I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out.

Sophia Loren

#2. The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it

Niccolo Paganini

#3. Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Victor Hugo

#4. I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

Sophia Loren

#5. The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels.

Ann Goldstein

#6. My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

John Cheever

#7. 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

#8. Andy and Terry went into the kitchen to serve out the Neapolitan (which we called van-choc-straw . . . funny how it all

Stephen King

#9. He was utterly incapable of resisting the maneuvers of the mealy-mouthed scoundrel that the Neapolitan Vincentian, Bugnini,77 a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty, soon revealed himself to be. Even

Louis Bouyer

#10. When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.

Marion Woodman

#13. We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

Katharine Hayhoe

#14. Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

Joyce Meyer

#15. The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

John Haggai

#16. The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story.

Melissa Broder

#17. A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.

John Caples

#18. I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

Mary Brunner

#19. Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.

Joe Cowley

#20. The agreement is so strong that even if we understand the concept of it not being true, we feel the blame, the guilt, and the shame that occur if we go against these rules.

Miguel Ruiz

#21. ... a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed ...

Sharon Kay Penman