Top 100 Della's Quotes
#1. You couldn't stop staring at his butt the other day."
Della's mouth dropped open and she rolled her eyes. "You are so wrong." She fanned herself with her hand. "But the boy is eye candy to the max.
C.C. Hunter
#2. Della's heart did a dip, feeling the emotional tug of seeing two people who were so right for each other. She'd always gotten that feeling when she saw Kylie and Lucas together.
C.C. Hunter
#3. I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody's going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.
Jerry Della Femina
#4. Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
Jerry Della Femina
#5. Della figured you guys would need something to tide you over before dinner," he said. "Thanks, Dave." "Good to have you guys back here safely," Dave told him, then mouthed, "I like him," as he pointed toward the bed where Prophet had now deposited himself with his iPad. "Me too," Tom told him. Dave
S.E. Jakes
#6. If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.
Jerry Della Femina
#7. If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.
Della Reese
#8. Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della
Abbi Glines
#9. When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint.
-Della
C.C. Hunter
#10. I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.
Della Reese
#11. My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
Della Reese
#12. Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register.
Jerry Della Femina
#13. Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed e subito sera
Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world,
pierced by a ray of sunlight,
and suddenly it's evening
Salvatore Quasimodo
#14. You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
Diego Della Valle
#15. I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
Jerry Della Femina
#16. Man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish ...
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#17. There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
Jerry Della Femina
#18. Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.
Jerry Della Femina
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Andre Della Monica
#20. I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
Della Reese
#21. Della looked around. Kylie and Lucas and her mom sat chatting about selling her house. Lucas must be getting used to Kylie's mom, because he actually looked comfortable instead of miserable, like he usually did when Kylie forced him to spend time with her mom.
C.C. Hunter
#22. There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.
Jerry Della Femina
#23. I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is ... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.
Jerry Della Femina
#24. We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.
Della Reese
#25. This isn't fair. I tell you guys everything. I don't hold back anything."
"Believe me, I know," Della said. "I know more about you and Perry's relationship than the law allows.
C.C. Hunter
#26. Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
Jerry Della Femina
#27. I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Jerry Della Femina
#28. There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
Jerry Della Femina
#29. I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.
Jerry Della Femina
#30. But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#31. I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
Diego Della Valle
#32. It's not the load you carry but how you carry it.
Della Reese
#33. On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren't so formal.
Diego Della Valle
#34. I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.
Diego Della Valle
#35. Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier."
"Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped.
C.C. Hunter
#36. Quit trying to talk yourself out of
going," Della said.
"How do you know that's what I'm
doing?"
"Because I can see it on your face. And
because you couldn't walk any slower if
you were a turtle on crutches.
C.C. Hunter
#37. So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's blackmail."
"Add it to my list of sins."
"I don't think there's room left on that list," Josey said as she took a dress from its hanger. Then she closed the closet door on Della Lee.
Sarah Addison Allen
#38. Because I can't live without Della. I don't want to. She's the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods
Abbi Glines
#39. La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.
Diego Della Valle
#40. Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life.
Diego Della Valle
#41. Where are you at? Burnett's voice boomed out of her phone into the car. Della picked up a shitload of tension, but decided to ignore it and hope it was just the vampire's normal I'm-worried-therefore-I-roar voice.
C.C. Hunter
#43. A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.
Jerry Della Femina
#44. I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.
Diego Della Valle
#45. No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
Jerry Della Femina
#46. It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.
Della Reese
#47. People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
Jerry Della Femina
#48. Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
Jerry Della Femina
#49. Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.
Andrea Della Valle
#50. Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each shoe and bag, which in itself may be attractive and useful and comfortable to carry and wear, there is this Italian spirit, this Italian dream.
Diego Della Valle
#51. That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Jerry Della Femina
#52. Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.
Diego Della Valle
#53. Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#54. At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#55. Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
Jerry Della Femina
#56. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.
Della Reese
#57. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#58. The closest he got to being Prince Charming was being a Principe della Mafia, but there was nothing remotely romantic about that.
J.M. Darhower
#59. So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
Della Reese
#60. The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
Jerry Della Femina
#61. You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.
Diego Della Valle
#62. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.
Jacopo Della Quercia
#63. When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.
Diego Della Valle
#64. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
Della Reese
#65. You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with you, I'm planning on us.
Abbi Glines
#66. Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.
Diego Della Valle
#68. Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.
Jerry Della Femina
#69. What a mess you've made of the simplest of subjects, Della.
Kellyn Roth
#70. There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.
Jerry Della Femina
#71. The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.
Jerry Della Femina
#72. It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#73. I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.
Jerry Della Femina
#75. Della pretty much told him the same thing. And she gave him hell. The kind of hell only Della can dish out. Told him he was a piece of monkey shit and that he should go have himself castrated.
C.C. Hunter
#76. There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, and Tod's has done that.
Diego Della Valle
#77. What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
Jerry Della Femina
#79. My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.
Della Reese
#80. Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.
Jerry Della Femina
#81. I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.
Diego Della Valle
#82. I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
#84. I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.
Della Reese
#85. Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
Jerry Della Femina
#86. Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.
Diego Della Valle
#87. So joy and sadness are simply the passage to a greater or lesser power of acting, a greater or lesser ability to bring about certain effects.
Michael Della Rocca
#88. You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Jerry Della Femina
#89. But you ... you have no fucking clue how unbelievably beautiful and desirable you are. You're not calculating and selfish. And you make me want to be better.
Woods
Abbi Glines
#91. It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
Jerry Della Femina
#92. I was pretty damn sure there was a Twitter hashtag that said #NanHater.
Abbi Glines
#95. In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
#96. I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Della Femina
#97. Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.
Della Reese
#98. Wow," Miranda said, "You'd better be careful Della. In the last few days, I think you've used up your vampire quota of apologies for the next ten years."
"Kiss my apologetic ass!" Della snapped.
C.C. Hunter
#99. Touching people is very rewarding to me.
Della Reese
#100. A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up with case that's what he calls on all fours and was decided seventy-five or a hundred years ago.
Erle Stanley Gardner
