Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

The unknown is always interesting.

I love the mystery behind things.

When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

I was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster, I would look through these books in the library and dream about visiting Loch Ness one day… That stuff was really kind of what I loved as a kid.

Everyone thinks that hieroglyphics are really old but if you think about how the world's going now, I think they are just emojis.

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.

When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology.