Cecil's Quotes

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it. — Richard Cecil

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue. — Cecil Taylor

My life sucks. So I shave my head. — Cecil Castellucci

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship. — Robert Anton Wilson

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping. — Cecil Castellucci

The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. — Cecil Balmond

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano? — Cecil Taylor

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

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

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton

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

Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria — Cecil Woodham-Smith

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. — Joel Hodgson

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them. — Cecil Frank Powell

Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did. — Cecil Roth

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. — Cecil Beaton

The really witty man does not shower forth his wit so indiscriminately; — Cecil B. Hartley

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. — Cecil Beaton

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself. — Cecil Taylor

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is. — Lord David Cecil

The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion. — Cecil Castellucci

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

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. — Richard Cecil

A good horse is the best company in the world. — Katherine Cecil Thurston

And, unknown to herself, he had done a portrait in words. — Cecil Roberts

In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove.... — Cecil Woodham-Smith

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. — Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man! — Katherine Cecil Thurston

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished. — Arthur Cecil Pigou

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. — Cecil Beaton

Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten. — Cecil Castellucci

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure ... — Katherine Cecil Thurston

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays) — William Cecil Dampier

I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live. — Karen Cecil Smith

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

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow. — Cecil Thounaojam

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God. — Richard Cecil

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. — Cecil Beaton

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning. — Jeffrey Whittam

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. — Richard Cecil

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

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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

True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving ... — Cecil B. Day

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

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

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

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

The application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential. — Craig Cecil

The public is always right. — Cecil B. DeMille

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? — Cecil B. DeMille

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. — Cecil B. DeMille

Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet, it is. — Cecil Palmer

First month honey ... Next month pie ... Third month ... Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I. — Karen Cecil Smith

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. — Richard Cecil

You don't deal with time. Time deals with you. — Cecil Dawkins

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to? — Cecil Castellucci

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet. — Cecil Day-Lewis

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure. — Cecil Balmond

I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not. — Cecil Murphey

It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks. — Cecil Woodham-Smith

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible. — Cecil Rhodes

I kind of went from bi-curious to bisexual in the space of time it took you to agree to fuck me. — Cecil Wilde

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille

Love is someone you can be silly with — Cecil Beaton

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. — Steven Spielberg

Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree. — Cecil Rhodes

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. — Cecil Rhodes

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making. — Richard Cecil

Blast Cecil!" said Eldric. "You have my permission," I said. — Franny Billingsley

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. — Cecil Baldwin

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

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. — Cecil Day-Lewis

Creation is a drug I can't do without. — Cecil B. DeMille

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. — Richard Cecil

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. — Cecil B. DeMille

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci

If there were such a thing as a vampire-puppy-dog, it would be Cecil. Big pleading eyes, asking for an ear-scratch and a nice warm bowl of blood. — Franny Billingsley

Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity. — Craig Cecil

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. — Richard Cecil

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton

There can be no liberty without the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. — Cecil Rhodes

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

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! — Katherine Cecil Thurston

Cecil: "A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition. — William Carmichael

She reached out her arms to Blackie. The beautiful siren was calling her weary sailor safely to port. — Karen Cecil Smith

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up. — Cecil Castellucci

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen! — Harper Lee

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life. — Katherine Cecil Thurston

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. — Richard Cecil