{"quotes":[{"text":"It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...","author":"Italo Calvino","tags":["baron-in-the-trees","fiction","italian"],"id":528,"author_id":"Italo+Calvino"},{"text":"Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.","author":"Thomas M. Cirignano","tags":["boston","boston-harbor","boston-history","bully","bullying","castle-island","cirignano","discrimination","dorchester","drinking-and-driving","fitting-in","forced-busing","gas-shortage","irish-mob","italian","memoir","murder","nonfiction","osracism","south-boston","southie","true-crime","whitey-bulger"],"id":1557,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Cirignano"},{"text":"Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["beautiful","beautiful-writing","beauty","buildings","italian","italy","new-york","new-york-city","personification","rome","tuscany","woman"],"id":3674,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.","author":"George Miller","tags":["eating","you","italian "],"id":13282,"author_id":"George+Miller"},{"text":"In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!","author":"Carl William Brown","tags":["common","italian","italy","law","legal","quotes","stupid","stupidity","system"],"id":61231,"author_id":"Carl+William+Brown"},{"text":"Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!' #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion.","author":"OlgaGOA","tags":["book","book","book-worm","books","english","italian","italian-literature","italy","love","lovequotes","passion","rome","russia","russian","russian-literature","saintpetersburg"],"id":82596,"author_id":"OlgaGOA"},{"text":"Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["culture","italian","life","personification","village","village-life"],"id":85958,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.","author":"Elizabeth Gilbert","tags":["empathy","experience","italian","scars"],"id":99377,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gilbert"},{"text":"You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her'. #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:.","author":"Olga Goa","tags":["book","book","book-worm","books","english","italian","italian-literature","italianpassion","italy","love","lovequotes","passion","quotes","rome","russia","russian","russian-literature","saintpetersburg"],"id":107749,"author_id":"Olga+Goa"},{"text":"Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["essence","italian","melody","music","proverb"],"id":141859,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}