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Letter "I" » Italian A
«A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.»
Author: Charles Boyer
(Actor)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
breaking off, break off, console, crossed, deceitful, double cross, Englishwoman, Englishwomen, Frenchwoman, Italian, Italian A, kill off, rival, The Italian
«Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.»
Author: Paul Carvel
(Editor, Writer)
| Keywords:
deaf, Italians, Italian A, sign language, The Italian
«Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.»
«Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.»
Author: Pope John XXIII
| Keywords:
chose, farming, gambling, Italians, Italian A, My Family, The Italian, three-way
«In Italian, a belladonna is a beautiful lady; in English, it's a deadly poison.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
belladonna, deadly, Italian, Italian A
«Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Beauty,
Language
| Keywords:
belladonna, deadly, English tongue, identity, Italian, Italian A, striking, The Italian, tongues
«She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.»
Author: Bob Dylan
| Keywords:
Book of, coal, glowed, handed, Italian, Italian A, It Was Written, one of them, One Ring, opened, page, poems, pouring, rang, the 13th century, The Italian, write off
«I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
| Keywords:
discussed, guinea, homes, Italian, Italian A, Jew, neighborhood, Old Irish, Old Italian, playmate, playmates, privacy
«I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
American Dream, argue, bring forward, confidently, distinctions, distributed, distributes, Distributing, equality, equality of opportunity, In Living Color, Italians, Italian A, Jews, Land of Opportunity, luxuries, necessities, Negroes, privilege, realization, separateness, skin color, The Italian, unfulfilled, widely, widely distributed
«A wonderful drink, wine. . . . Did you ever hear of an Italian grape crusher with athlete's foot?.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
athlete, crusher, grape, Italian, Italian A, The Italian
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