Mr Demille Quotes

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

Cecil B. DeMille

#6. There is no terra incognito left.

Nelson DeMille

#7. 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

#8. She asked me, "Was your divorce nasty?" "Not at all. The marriage was nasty.

Nelson DeMille

#9. 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

#10. There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.

Nelson DeMille

#11. 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

#12. Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Cecil B. DeMille

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The only person who can fix education is the student.

Oliver DeMille

#17. Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

Oliver DeMille

#18. But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.

Nelson DeMille

#19. Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend,

Nelson DeMille

#20. 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

#21. The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

Cecil B. DeMille

#22. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.

Nelson DeMille

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield

Nelson DeMille

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Nelson DeMille

#32. I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

William C. DeMille

#33. 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

#34. Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

Nelson DeMille

#35. Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy - only free.

Nelson DeMille

#36. 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