William De Mille Quotes & Sayings

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say ... and those who expect me to always have something to say. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right. — Thomas Crum

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation. — Marcel Proust

You are your own magical elixir. Waste not one drop. — A.D. Posey

I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal. — Elizabeth Taylor

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. — Albert Barnes

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

nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely. — Catherine Clark

In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable. — Martin Luther

Reading is the Magic key,
To take you where you want to be. — Alice Joyce Davidson

Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world. — Wayne Dyer