Top 100 Cecil Quotes
#1. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.
Joseph Fink
#2. You don't mind when he stares at you." Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric.
"He doesn't stare," I said. "He looks.
Franny Billingsley
#3. Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.
E. M. Forster
#4. How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
Oscar Wilde
#5. That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing."
"What's the difference?" Cecil asked.
Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.
Meriol Trevor
#6. February 5: Laurence Olivier, his agent Cecil Tennant, and playwright Terence Rattigan arrive in New York to discuss with Marilyn a film of The Sleeping Prince, to be produced in London with Olivier and Marilyn in the starring roles.
Carl Rollyson
#7. No, when it came to avoiding going to church, the church he stolidly avoided going to was St. Cecil and All Angels, no-nonsense C. of E., and he wouldn't have dreamed of avoiding going to any other.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name.
Kevin M. Kruse
#9. Then he put that one down behind a framed sepia-tone picture of a baseball player named Cecil Travis and picked up another one and tilted it back to his lips.
Tom Wolfe
#10. So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.
Archie Shepp
#12. I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
Hamish Bowles
#13. LAUREN: We will also fill in the giant hole out back of the Ralphs.
CECIL: But where will the people who huddle there go to huddle?
Joseph Fink
#15. I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
Richard Flanagan
#17. I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character ... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
Luc Ferrari
#18. It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.
Marsha Norman
#19. when Cecil talked it was possible to let some of that go. To let go of the worries. To let go of the questions. To let go of letting or going.
Joseph Fink
#20. Five, six, seven eight-," Cecil grinned.
"-Gay is just as good as straight," Dave said.
Joseph Hansen
#21. When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
Lou Reed
#22. You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
Steve Erickson
#23. I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
Stephen Dorff
#24. Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde
#26. The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
Pat Metheny
#27. Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
Michelle Malkin
#28. What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Steve Lacy
#29. I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.
Susan Kay
#30. It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of ... I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper ... And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.
Manolo Blahnik
#31. What?' Diane was enjoying listening to Cecil. She loved the end of his show, when he said, 'Good night, Night Vale, good night.' No matter how difficult her life was or how troublesome the news he was reporting, his voice and his sign-off put her at such ease.
Joseph Fink
#32. When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wasn't an actor. But Cecil Pickett molded me and taught me.
Brett Cullen
#33. You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'
Cynthia Heimel
#34. How many more are there like you? (Maggie)
Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
Kary Mullis
#36. The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil.
'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.
Franny Billingsley
#37. And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
Archie Shepp
#38. We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
Alan Jay Lerner
#39. I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
Gloria Swanson
#40. Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah ... " Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word.
"Equals?" Miles hazarded.
"Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#41. Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects ... the list is endless.
Dries Van Noten
#42. Isn't Mr. Cecil Wooley the fattest, slittiest-eyed thing you've ever seen? And don't you suppose that being called Reverend Doctor Mootfowl is not a common phenomenon, and never has been?
Mark Helprin
#44. I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.
Franny Billingsley
#45. If there were such a thing as a vampire-puppy-dog, it would be Cecil. Big pleading eyes, asking for an ear-scratch and a nice warm bowl of blood.
Franny Billingsley
#46. It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz - Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor - could never become owners of cleaning shops in malls across from railroad stations.
Haruki Murakami
#47. He scooped up my arm, swung me round. "Let go, Cecil," I said. "I've a strange dislike of being forced." "But Briony," he said, "I'm so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!" Why didn't he?
Franny Billingsley
#48. Poor Cecil. It's hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home.
Franny Billingsley
#49. Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
Joel Hodgson
#50. Don't be a chicken, be a cat!" said Cecil. "Be adventurous".
Valerie Martin
#51. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
Mario Testino
#52. The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
Cecil B. DeMille
#53. You don't deal with time. Time deals with you.
Cecil Dawkins
#54. Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.
Cecil Brown
#55. The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.
Richard Cecil
#56. A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born ... in poetry.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#57. A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil
#58. I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
Cecil Castellucci
#59. A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#60. There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
Richard Cecil
#61. It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.
Lord David Cecil
#62. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
#63. Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.
Cecil Murphy
#64. I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
Cecil Castellucci
#65. Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#66. Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil
#67. Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
#68. I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Cecil Taylor
#69. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
Joseph Fink
#71. Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?
Cecil Castellucci
#72. They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#73. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
#74. The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.
Cecil Palmer
#76. All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Cecil Beaton
#77. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
Cecil Jacobson
#78. Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.
Richard Cecil
#79. The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
Cecil Frank Powell
#80. A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.
Lord David Cecil
#81. A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.
Cecil Beaton
#82. There's a reason that grueling long-term events are called 'Iron Man' events. In this case, you're going to build Iron Man.
Craig Cecil
#83. It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
Lord David Cecil
#84. I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.
Cecil Murphey
#86. In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.
Cecil Taylor
#87. The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
Richard Cecil
#89. The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.
William Cecil Dampier
#91. What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Cecil B. DeMille
#92. I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.
Cecil Purdy
#94. Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique.
Craig Cecil
#97. The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.
Craig Cecil
#98. San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.
Cecil Beaton
#99. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
#100. Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil B. DeMille
