Top 100 Cecil's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry.
Karen Cecil Smith
#3. A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.
Cecil Castellucci
#4. There's a beast in all of us, you know,' Jasper said.
'No,' Tessa said.
'Yes, a monster right inside of us all,' Jasper said.
They wondered what theirs looked like. They faced each other and blinked while making faces to try to capture the phantom.
Cecil Castellucci
#5. 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
#6. We are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate ... There's not a child so small and weak But has his little cross to take, His little work of love and praise That he may do for Jesus' sake.
Cecil Frances Alexander
#7. Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.
Cecil Castellucci
#8. There's a monster at the end of this book. It's the blank page where the story ends and you're left alone with yourself and your thoughts.
Cecil Baldwin
#9. Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?
Cecil Taylor
#10. Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#11. I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.
Karen Cecil Smith
#12. Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Cecil Castellucci
#14. God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil
#15. On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton
#16. Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Cecil Rhodes
#17. It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key to continual progress.
Craig Cecil
#18. Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child ... With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.
Cecil Frances Alexander
#19. The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
Richard Cecil
#20. Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.
Cecil Roth
#21. 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
#22. Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Cecil Beaton
#23. This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
Jeffrey Whittam
#24. Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil B. DeMille
#25. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
#26. San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.
Cecil Beaton
#27. Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton
#28. If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within
Cecil Murphey
#29. Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
Richard Cecil
#30. It's nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn't trapped in a hovering prison in the men's bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.
Cecil Baldwin
#31. 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
#33. Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
Cecil Beaton
#34. The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
Cecil Taylor
#35. It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.
Cecil Castellucci
#36. One death has already been attributed to the Glow Cloud.
But listen, it's probably nothing. If we had to shut down the town for every mysterious event that at least one death could be attributed to, we'd never have time to do anything, right?
Joseph Fink
#37. Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.
Richard Cecil
#38. I'm...um...I've got guests in my studio. I don't know how they undid my secure barricade made of cardboard signs that said KEEP OUT! and SECRET ROOM! in all caps with an exclamation point, but it's my program director, Lauren, and some man I've never seen bef - but no, I have seen him before.
Joseph Fink
#39. It's been three days
still haven't heard from you.
My heart lives underwater
breathing for you.
But you break apart
my tiny heart,
giving me no chance
to start something with you.
I dove into the pool
I dove in
hoping to swim
now I'm drowning.
Cecil Castellucci
#40. The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.
Craig Cecil
#41. Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai ... but he has never improved on God's law.
Cecil B. DeMille
#42. Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.
Karen Cecil Smith
#43. A woman ran at our car screaming, a few of the shadow people chasing her, but before I could even touch the brake she must have changed her mind, because she had already turned into a shadow person herself. It's like, ugh, run from the shadow people or become one. Make up your mind, lady!
Joseph Fink
#44. They are obviously pirate services. Sure they might be able to survive as small businesses, but it's hard to get advertisers to advertise on a pirate site. It's a hugely fragmented market.
Robert Cecil Martin
#45. 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
#46. The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct. On her bit of ivory she has engraved a criticism of life as serious and as considers as Hardy's.
David Cecil
#47. 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
#48. Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.
Cecil Murphey
#49. Night Vale, my sweet and only Night Vale, may you find love. May you find it wherever it's been hidden. May you find who has been hiding it and extract revenge upon them.
Joseph Fink
#50. There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#51. 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
#52. It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.
Lord David Cecil
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Cecil Taylor
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.
Cecil Murphy
#64. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
#65. 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
#66. There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
Richard Cecil
#67. 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
#68. A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.
Cecil Brown
#75. You don't deal with time. Time deals with you.
Cecil Dawkins
#76. The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
Cecil B. DeMille
#77. I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.
Cecil Murphey
#79. Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique.
Craig Cecil
#81. 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
#82. What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Cecil B. DeMille
#84. 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
#86. The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
Richard Cecil
#87. 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
#90. It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
Lord David Cecil
#91. 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
#92. A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.
Cecil Beaton
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.
Richard Cecil
#96. 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
#97. All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Cecil Beaton
#99. 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
#100. 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
