Top 100 Demille's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr
#3. Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves ... the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn ... (An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.
Oliver DeMille
#4. I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
Nelson DeMille
#5. (Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?")
Lee Grant
#6. This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
Anthony Hopkins
#7. Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
Nelson DeMille
#8. The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
Nelson DeMille
#9. Will you take this seriously? The future of an entire species is at stake."
"Yes, we're going to save them with a fart gun.
Ilona Andrews
#10. How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
Nelson DeMille
#11. When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from our posterity. What kind of people do that? Are we such people? These are questions each of us must face.
Oliver DeMille
#12. It's being handled. Your involvement isn't necessary. You're free to continue on your serial urination spree.
Ilona Andrews
#13. Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.
Nelson DeMille
#14. Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.
Oliver DeMille
#15. Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.
Clint Walker
#16. Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.
Oliver DeMille
#17. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
Nelson DeMille
#18. It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
Nelson DeMille
#19. The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make more money writing about what I do than I make doing what I do.
Nelson DeMille
#20. Arland hit me with another smile. Vampire smiles should really be outlawed.
Ilona Andrews
#21. Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.
Oliver DeMille
#22. Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
Gayle Lynds
#25. Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.
Nelson DeMille
#26. As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.
Nelson DeMille
#27. That suit has gone to your head."
"It's not the suit, buttercup."
"I don't do pet names."
"Do you do werewolves?"
"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore.
Ilona Andrews
#28. I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.
Nelson DeMille
#29. Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.
Oliver DeMille
#30. 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
#31. I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians.
Nelson DeMille
#32. I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition.
Nelson DeMille
#33. I want to be back to work next week.
'Let's get you home first. I need to evaluate the extent of your mental impairment.' She tried to flash me the peace sign, but in her weakend condition, she only managed to raise her middle finger.
Nelson DeMille
#34. Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"
Oliver DeMille
#35. But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week.
Nelson DeMille
#36. Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.
Oliver DeMille
#37. Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.
Oliver DeMille
#38. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!
Nelson DeMille
#39. I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
Nelson DeMille
#40. Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
Nelson DeMille
#41. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille
#42. He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.
Nelson DeMille
#43. The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another
Oliver DeMille
#45. You get a promotion?"
"I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [ ... ]"
"You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me."
"We're a bit more subtle.
Nelson DeMille
#46. What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
Oliver DeMille
#47. After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
Cecil B. DeMille
#48. Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood.
Nelson DeMille
#49. Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.
Oliver DeMille
#50. The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.
Oliver DeMille
#51. It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.
Nelson DeMille
#52. I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William C. DeMille
#53. There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
Nelson DeMille
#54. She asked me, "Was your divorce nasty?" "Not at all. The marriage was nasty.
Nelson DeMille
#55. The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.
Oliver DeMille
#57. What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Cecil B. DeMille
#58. I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.
Nelson DeMille
#59. Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.
Oliver DeMille
#60. I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
Nelson DeMille
#61. The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.
Oliver DeMille
#62. Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy - only free.
Nelson DeMille
#63. Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.
Nelson DeMille
#64. We're all
criminally insane, but most of us have good control mechanisms,
internal and external. Remove the controls and you have a killer.
Nelson DeMille
#65. There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.
Nelson DeMille
#67. In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
Oliver DeMille
#68. A big Russian lady, who seemed to be the household cook, supervised the making of zakuski
Russian hors d'oeuvres, which unfortunately didn't include pigs-in-a-blanket. What kind of party is this?
Nelson DeMille
#69. I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.
Nelson DeMille
#70. We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
Oliver DeMille
#71. Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield
Nelson DeMille
#72. Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you'll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.
Nelson DeMille
#73. Obnoxious smart-ass. Never been anywhere, never done anything, huh. Arrested development, huh. Considering that it was coming from a man who spent his nights peeing on his neighbors' fences, that was rich. Shoot, I should've told him that.
Ilona Andrews
#74. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!
Oliver DeMille
#75. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.
Nelson DeMille
#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. You're smarter than you look. Did you ever have anti-terrorist training?" "Sort of. I was married.
Nelson DeMille
#78. I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
Nelson DeMille
#80. When we discover this and give our lives to it, we are leaders. This is the Path of Leadership. Whatever our age or phase of life, we must enter and stay on the Path of Leadership. The future of the world depends upon it-upon you.
Oliver DeMille
#81. A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As
Nelson DeMille
#82. I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.
Nelson DeMille
#83. I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
Nelson DeMille
#84. The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.
Nelson DeMille
#85. An Englishman once said that he found it easier to be a member of a club than of the human race because the bylaws were shorter, and he knew all the members personally. That sounds about right.
Nelson DeMille
#86. Most accidents, I'm convinced, are God's way of getting rid of stupid people. Or if you believe in Darwinism, you wonder why there are any stupid people left in the world. Well, I guess they can reproduce before they remove themselves from the gene pool.
Nelson DeMille
#87. Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.
Nelson DeMille
#88. I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.
Nelson DeMille
#89. No U.S. president can "fix" education, no law can systematize inspiration, and no amount of funding, policy or resources can structure passion.
Oliver DeMille
#90. The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring,
Oliver DeMille
#91. Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.
Oliver DeMille
#92. Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.
Oliver DeMille
#93. But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.
Nelson DeMille
#94. Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
Oliver DeMille
#95. The only person who can fix education is the student.
Oliver DeMille
#96. Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.
Oliver DeMille
#97. 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
#98. It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.
Nelson DeMille
#99. Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil B. DeMille
#100. The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.
Oliver DeMille
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