Sicilian Quotes

#1. The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

Alan Parsons

#2. Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

Andrea Camilleri

#3. Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Daniel J. King

#4. I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Martin Scorsese

#5. I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.

Johnny Depp

#6. 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

#7. George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

Christopher Buckley

#8. Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

Alec-Tweedie

#9. The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Horace

#10. The Japanese Mafia. Tell me something, Jason, you ever hear anyone describe our thing as 'The Sicilian Yakuza'? Huh?

Neal Stephenson

#11. Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

Bent Larsen

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

Traci Andrighetti

#13. He pointed into the pizza box, and when I looked closely, I could see a tiny bit of green wire sticking out from under the thick Sicilian crust.

James Patterson

#14. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

Terrance Hayes

#15. As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Andrew Cuomo

#16. My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

#17. My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

#18. Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.

Domenico Dolce

#19. I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amy Adams

#20. I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#21. Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.

Harlan Coben

#22. I mean, go figure. You prepare your home for an assault and you don't take zombies into consideration. I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

Jim Butcher

#23. Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..........(thump)

Ned Vizzini

#24. I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.

Raymond Kelly

#25. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

Marlo Thomas

#26. The Sicilian's word was not just law, it was gospel.

William Goldman

#27. No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?

William Goldman

#28. I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

Lapo Elkann

#29. a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent

Traci Andrighetti

#30. Sometimes they'll make little Play-Doh animals, and when they go to sleep, I'll break the heads off the animals and put them at the foot of their beds for them to discover in the morning. Nothing wrong with sending your kids a little Sicilian message.

Jerry Seinfeld

#31. I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

Jen Lancaster

#32. Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

Michael Symon

#33. I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

Lady Gaga

#34. I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Lee Child

#35. Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

William Goldman

#36. I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

Cyndi Lauper

#37. We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the one shot in Vucciria Sicilian historical market We enjoyed showing the faces and the characters that crowd that beautiful market every day.

Stefano Gabbana

#38. The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

Juvenal

#39. You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

Vincent Schiavelli