Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Cecelia Ahern

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• Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Children
  • Business
  • Change

• I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Proud
  • Competition

• I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Always
  • Find
  • Complicated

• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Body

• Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• I'm not cynical.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Cynical

• Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• I absolutely love Sisley moisturising cream, which I use every morning; it also provides a great base for make-up, and I adore Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser for an overall finish.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • Great
  • Morning

• People say I am the king of painful shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • King
  • Shoes

• Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Long
  • Family
  • Parents

• In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.

  

  Andy Pick
  • Great
  • Strong

• I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • World
  • Children

• If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • People
  • Real
  • Light

• Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I'm just going to keep working hard on and off the training field.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Training

• Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

  

  Alva Noto
  • Alone

• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Good

• A good artist has less time than ideas.

  

  Martin Kippenberger
  • Time
  • Good

• One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

  

  Janos Bolyai
  • Nature
  • Violence
  • Model

• Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Men
  • Women

• There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

  

  Andres Iniesta
  • Mind
  • Moments

• As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Moments

• Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Moments
  • Realizing