As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating e...
MARIO BATALI We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry se...
MARIO BATALI Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there'...
MARIO BATALI Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the eveni...
MARIO BATALI The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we fi...
MARIO BATALI I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
MARIO BATALI The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can c...
MARIO BATALI My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; th...
MARIO BATALI We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put ou...
MARIO BATALI My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go throug...
MARIO BATALI There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain,...
MARIO BATALI You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good t...
MARIO BATALI Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A l...
MARIO BATALI Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of thre...
MARIO BATALI Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
MARIO BATALI Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
MARIO BATALI Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make del...
MARIO BATALI In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you...
MARIO BATALI Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun...
MARIO BATALI You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good t...
MARIO BATALI I started to train in economics, and I hated it. I never really entered that world, and went to a co...
MARIO BATALI Cooking in France and Italy has a particular high resonance, and it's hard to say how or why it deve...
MARIO BATALI I guess the success of selling this kind of food to New Yorkers is that to them it seems new. Servin...
MARIO BATALI The Food Network is getting a little more entertaining than I would have thought a couple years back...
MARIO BATALI I like the history of the Daytona 500. It's like the Kentucky Derby of car racing.
MARIO BATALI My partner, Joe, spends a lot of his time in Italy and has grown up in an Italian family, but it's m...
MARIO BATALI D.C. is a complicated market that I don't understand very well. The restaurant business is a slipper...
MARIO BATALI Some things are being destroyed, because the Italians are just as tired of their basic food as the A...
MARIO BATALI Kids today want to eat their risotto with curry and shrimp and sour cream, not risotto alla Milanese...
MARIO BATALI From a great restaurant to a B-minus player can happen in six weeks.
MARIO BATALI I really enjoyed writing the first book. And since then it's been great. I've written every word of ...
MARIO BATALI This is food that can be made at home without too much shopping,
MARIO BATALI French and Italian cooking have been elevated to a really high art form.
MARIO BATALI The lighting and the buzz and everything in addition to the food have an impact on what the customer...
MARIO BATALI I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88.
MARIO BATALI I didn't speak Italian when I got to Italy. I had taken a couple of lessons and did a year in colleg...
MARIO BATALI My intention is to make sure that we think about it without becoming too intellectual about it. Ther...
MARIO BATALI If neither of the two parties are happy, then you have a closed restaurant. And if only one of the t...
MARIO BATALI If you approach cooking as a trade school, then you may not have as many interesting things to think...
MARIO BATALI In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take...
MARIO BATALI Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.
MARIO BATALI Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval b...
MARIO BATALI The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn'...
MARIO BATALI When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. ...
MARIO BATALI The whole concept of the supremacy of the family unit in the Italian culture... That's all based on ...
MARIO BATALI The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and every...
MARIO BATALI There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to ea...
MARIO BATALI I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In t...
MARIO BATALI For two years I would just make that. I would concentrate on making the perfect omelet... It was imp...
MARIO BATALI It is important to get the zucchini crisp when you cook it; the trick is to move it very little when...
MARIO BATALI There are all kinds of myths going on in the Italian culture, and the way they celebrate is through ...
MARIO BATALI The whole thing of the risotto as a side dish with pasta: If no one is ever going to ask for risotto...
MARIO BATALI Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you w...
MARIO BATALI Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it...
MARIO BATALI I can chill without having to watch my Ps and Qs.
MARIO BATALI To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it...
MARIO BATALI It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti...
MARIO BATALI Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for th...
MARIO BATALI The food at my restaurants is mostly the food of Italy's grandmothers.
MARIO BATALI The objective... is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/vi...
MARIO BATALI I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use i...
MARIO BATALI When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put...
MARIO BATALI Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by fr...
MARIO BATALI All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, news...
MARIO BATALI If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids ...
MARIO BATALI Think of the cooking of the Southwest: Arizona, anything on the border of Mexico, the rich chili cul...
MARIO BATALI Spaghetti is love.
MARIO BATALI To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it...
MARIO BATALI The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into the...
MARIO BATALI I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and ...
MARIO BATALI As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food&#...
MARIO BATALI You have to live life to its full chorizo.
MARIO BATALI Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and...
MARIO BATALI You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ...
MARIO BALOTELLI They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forg...
MARIO BALOTELLI Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of ...
MARIO TESTINO A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
MARIO PUZO Racism springs from ignorance.
MARIO BALOTELLI I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion ...
MARIO CANTONE Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in tha...
MARIO MONTI In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budget...
MARIO MONTI I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is g...
MARIO CUOMO You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
MARIO CUOMO It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn't do it. And vice versa -...
MARIO ANDRETTI Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if maj...
MARIO DRAGHI Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. A...
MARIO PUZO Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.
MARIO PUZO Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betr...
MARIO PUZO Michael: This used to be my father's old study -- it's changed. I remember there used to be a big de...
MARIO PUZO Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
MARIO BURATA Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, b...
MARIO LEMIEUX With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.
MARIO PUZO He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero wh...
MARIO PUZO You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
MARIO CUOMO Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit...
MARIO ANDRETTI I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw ...
MARIO CUOMO There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, ...
MARIO SAVIO Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yoursel...
MARIO ANDRETTI If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
MARIO ANDRETTI Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourse...
MARIO ANDRETTI Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...
MARIO ANDRETTI I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example i...
MARIO CUOMO Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
MARIO PUZO Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
MARIO PUZO As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressivenes...
MARIO ANDRETTI The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the crea...
MARIO CUOMO A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
MARIO ANDRETTI I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.
MARIO CANTONE How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
MARIO GABELLI If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of ...
MARIO CUOMO A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
MARIO BOTTA There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
MARIO LOPEZ For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
MARIO BOTTA I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only...
MARIO TEGUH Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise wha...
MARIO TEGUH I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God f...
MARIO TEGUH Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
MARIO TEGUH What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We ...
MARIO PUZO If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
MARIO ANDRETTI My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and worki...
MARIO CUOMO There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r...
MARIO TESTINO My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you c...
MARIO TESTINO I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it...
MARIO ANDRETTI When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.
MARIO ANDRETTI You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.
MARIO ANDRETTI Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
MARIO ANDRETTI I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never ...
MARIO ANDRETTI A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one ...
MARIO ANDRETTI I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young...
MARIO ANDRETTI The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call '...
MARIO ANDRETTI Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.
MARIO ANDRETTI You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. O...
MARIO ANDRETTI You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
MARIO ANDRETTI With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it...
MARIO ANDRETTI I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
MARIO ANDRETTI If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
MARIO ANDRETTI Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
MARIO ANDRETTI I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
MARIO ANDRETTI Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you o...
MARIO ANDRETTI Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
MARIO ANDRETTI If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
MARIO ANDRETTI That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.
MARIO LOPEZ I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.
MARIO LOPEZ I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.
MARIO LOPEZ Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of co...
MARIO LOPEZ I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.
MARIO LOPEZ I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
MARIO LOPEZ Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.
MARIO LOPEZ Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportu...
MARIO LOPEZ I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portray...
MARIO LOPEZ In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic backgrou...
MARIO LOPEZ Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone...
MARIO LOPEZ To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn&...
MARIO TESTINO There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans chargi...
MARIO CUOMO Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art bu...
MARIO TESTINO When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer...
MARIO TESTINO At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture an...
MARIO TESTINO In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being ...
MARIO CUOMO I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the rec...
MARIO MONTI Every man measures his own greed.
MARIO PUZO. One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...
MARIO PUZO No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
MARIO PUZO Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...
MARIO PUZO Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
MARIO PUZO Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every ...
MARIO PUZO Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him...
MARIO PUZO Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
MARIO CUOMO Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in...
MARIO BALOTELLI Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursui...
MARIO ANDRETTI Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit...
MARIO ANDRETTI We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our ...
MARIO LEMIEUX Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
MARIO CANTONE There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got ...
MARIO TESTINO There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a...
MARIO ANDRETTI No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced ...
MARIO CUOMO Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be ...
MARIO TESTINO Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
MARIO CUOMO Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really wha...
MARIO ANDRETTI How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions o...
MARIO GABELLI My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
MARIO TESTINO A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,
MARIO PUZO I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a young...
MARIO MONTI Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impa...
MARIO MONTI A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the...
MARIO CUOMO We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, th...
MARIO CUOMO The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We...
MARIO CUOMO The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view...
MARIO GABELLI I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
MARIO CANTONE But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And ...
MARIO PUZO It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gif...
MARIO PUZO Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
MARIO PUZO Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
MARIO PUZO I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
MARIO PUZO Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
MARIO PUZO I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.
MARIO TESTINO The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you durin...
MARIO ANDRETTI I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
MARIO PUZO Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French ...
MARIO MONTI