"What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to do it, it's just something my voice has. I think that's one of the reasons why Okkervil has been dubbed as really mopey - I have this tone to my voice that sounds like that."

“Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!”

Source : "The History Of The World Conqueror". Book by Ala Ad Din Ata Malik Juvaini, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

“I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

“I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.”

“Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.”

“Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.”

“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.”

“Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.”

“It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.”

Source : "Ludivine Sagnier on Impersonating the Late Alain Corneau in 'Love Crime'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 29, 2011.