Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Cecelia Ahern

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• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Job

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• I'm a writer, not a genre.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writer
  • Genre

• Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Think
  • Naked
  • Snack

• When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Feel
  • Marine

• I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Good
  • Man
  • Control

• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Why
  • Example

• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Remember
  • Period

• Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Education
  • Worthy
  • Instruction

• If I had an explanation, I would give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end tonight. During the season, you will have games like this.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Beginning
  • Games
  • Season

• The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Discipline

• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Why
  • America

• I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Suffering

• I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Rock
  • Queen
  • Christina Aguilera

• I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Rest
  • Feelings

• Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  

  Galt Niederhoffer
  • Culture
  • Listening
  • Laughing

• Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Feelings