All Quotes

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
‐‐ Samuel West

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
‐‐ Mos Def

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
‐‐ Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
‐‐ Norman Rockwell

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.
‐‐ Jerry Jones

It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.
‐‐ Chuck Grassley

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
‐‐ George Weinberg

It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.
‐‐ Jan Brewer

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
‐‐ Lord Melbourne

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
‐‐ Chazz Palminteri

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
‐‐ Barbara Steele

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
‐‐ Mariska Hargitay

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.
‐‐ Silvia Colloca

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
‐‐ Maurice Druon

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
‐‐ Eva Herzigova

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
‐‐ Iman

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.
‐‐ Sandro Veronesi

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Italians allow anything in their cooking.
‐‐ Jose Andres

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
‐‐ Don Rickles

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
‐‐ Johan Cruyff

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
‐‐ Pope John XXIII

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
‐‐ Donna Leon

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.
‐‐ Stefano Gabbana

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
‐‐ Donna Leon

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
‐‐ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.
‐‐ Ruud van Nistelrooy

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.
‐‐ Mario Monti

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.
‐‐ Stefon Harris

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
‐‐ Mario Monti

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.
‐‐ Alessandro Del Piero

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.
‐‐ Gianni Agnelli

Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner