Cecelia Ahern Quotes

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

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• I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Hope
  • Born
  • Legacy

• I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Love
  • Theatre

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Single
  • Amazing

• When I eat better, I perform better.

  

  Kathryn McCormick

• So now the devil's in my soul.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Soul
  • Devil
  • My Soul

• People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • God
  • Difficulty

• There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

  

  Alberto Korda
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Present

• Personally I just want to win a championship.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Win
  • Championship

• I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Wind
  • Over
  • Olympics

• If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Mexican

• The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Why

• Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Song
  • Alone
  • Singing

• There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Students
  • Millions
  • Services

• Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Why
  • Research
  • Lasts

• I would've said yes before I saw Aaron Gordon do what he did. And Zach LaVine went nuts as well. I think Gordon should've won for what he did. But what LaVine does is amazing. I don't know where he gets that bounce and that glide but it's incredible. I hope both those guys compete it in next year. Over the last years or so, I'd say the three-point contest has been more entertaining than the dunk contest, but this was really special this year.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Special
  • Lasts
  • Incredibles

• The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.

  

  William Mountford
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Genius

• No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Work
  • Merit
  • Instruct

• We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Issues
  • Lasts
  • Deeper