Pierre Loti Quotes

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Pierre Loti

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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Zeljko Ivanek
- People
- World
- Why
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
- Learned
- Dangerous
- Drive
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

Zooey Deschanel
- Up
- Women
- Beautiful
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

Felicia Day
- Proud
- End
- Seeing
I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Webb Simpson
- Me
- Year
- Lord
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

Dan Brown
- People
- Time
- Trying