Quote by Luigi Barzini
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure wi

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fishermans octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. – Luigi Barzini

Other quotes by Luigi Barzini

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

Category:
Libraries
Read Quote

Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

Category:
Diplomacy
Read Quote

Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

Category:
Humanity
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
famous
category

Kids will keep it real. If Ive ever had in my life a great anchor, its them. They get in your head, dont get too famous. If you think youre really famous and think youre really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. Thats about as earthbound as its going to get. – Lionel Richie

Category:
famous

I never pursued being famous. – Francesca Annis

Category:
famous

Im officially near-famous. If youve got four year old kids and youve got cable, then youve got no choice but to know who I am. But if youre one of my peers – a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan – you have no idea who I am. Im only famous if youre four. – Steve Burns

Category:
famous

There is this power that comes with being famous. – Rod Stewart

Category:
famous

Random Quotes

There are some mortals who are never happy save when they have some hurt feelings to enjoy. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

Category:
Curmudgeonesque

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesnt take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. – J. C. Watts

Category:
Politics

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Category:
Government

I owe much to mother. She had an experts understanding, but also approached art emotionally. – David Rockefeller

Category:
Art