Top 100 Quotes About Della
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. What a mess you've made of the simplest of subjects, Della.
Kellyn Roth
#9. Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.
Jerry Della Femina
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
Della Reese
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.
Diego Della Valle
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.
Della Reese
#22. Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
Jerry Della Femina
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Touching people is very rewarding to me.
Della Reese
#28. 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
#29. Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.
Della Reese
#30. I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Della Femina
#31. 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
#34. I was pretty damn sure there was a Twitter hashtag that said #NanHater.
Abbi Glines
#35. It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
Jerry Della Femina
#37. What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
Jerry Della Femina
#38. You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Jerry Della Femina
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
Jerry Della Femina
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.
Della Reese
#49. 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
#50. Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
Jerry Della Femina
#51. I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.
Della Reese
#52. 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
#54. You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish ... you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#55. Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
Jerry Della Femina
#57. The smell of peppery warm cheese and thick, yeasty grilled bread was beginning to fill the air. She would give the sandwich to Della Lee when she got home, and while Della Lee ate the sandwich Josey would eat oatmeal pies and candy corn and packets of salty pumpkin seeds from her closet.
Sarah Addison Allen
#58. Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
Diego Della Valle
#59. Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.
Della Reese
#60. 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
#61. The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.
Jerry Della Femina
#62. Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
Jerry Della Femina
#63. Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden
Until Della walked into my life I didn't understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I'd seen it once -Woods
Abbi Glines
#64. I knew she wouldn't remember me," Della said as she and Jordan once again sat at the table. "She had her head so far up her ass in high school, the only thing she could recognize was her own colon.
Carla Cassidy
#66. There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.
Della Reese
#67. So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.
Della Reese
#68. He frowned. "I knew being a vamp would be the pits."
Kylie rolled her eyes.
"I heard that," Della shouted.
"Can you hear this?" Lucas shot the bird toward the door.
C.C. Hunter
#69. Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
Della Reese
#70. I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
Giovanni Della Casa
#74. The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
Jerry Della Femina
#75. 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
#76. I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
Jerry Della Femina
#78. 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
#79. Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
Jerry Della Femina
#81. Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.
Della Reese
#82. The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
Jerry Della Femina
#83. My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.
Diego Della Valle
#84. My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.
Diego Della Valle
#85. The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.
Jerry Della Femina
#86. I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
Jerry Della Femina
#87. The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
Della Reese
#88. If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
Jerry Della Femina
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#93. I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'
Jerry Della Femina
#94. I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.
Diego Della Valle
#95. Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
Della Reese
#96. Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.
Jerry Della Femina
#97. I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!
Diego Della Valle
#99. The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.
Diego Della Valle
#100. God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
