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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 14, 1850 - June 10, 1923

Topics

QualityMemoryMeNameSeriousOld

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Andrew Motion

LifeBeautifulMoneyFinanceEating

If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices.

Amy Klobuchar

HandsCongressChainsWillHighSit

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Ron Paul

GovernmentWorldThinkEarlyHimUp

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Milos Forman

ThinkYouKnowHollywoodFilmMake

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

Jason Momoa

LoveLearningGrowing UpWorldHelp

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.

Christopher Koch

LiveWorldYouTransitionReflect

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

Arundhati Roy

PeopleArmyAmericaYouPriceNow

I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.

Sherman Austin

PeopleMeUpGotJustUnfortunately

My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

Twiggy

SisterFashionFindCopyGoMean

It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

Rick Perry

FutureFreedomControlGeneration

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

Marlon Brando

YouHustleBloodWantAudienceGive

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

Lindsay Lohan

HardshipsWayOutGoingDealing

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