Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

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• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Happiness

• Musical theatre is my first love.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • First

• Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Teeth

• Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for President. It’s been a long time since I said those words the first time, and now I’ve come here after seeing our great country to accept your nomination.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.

  

  Derrick Grayson
  • America
  • Control
  • Mistake

• I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Witch

• At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Feeling

• Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.

  

  James Gray
  • Irish

• When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

  

  Patti Smith

• Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

  

  Chen Long

• I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Believe

• Bios are always so dull and boring.

  

  Patty Smyth

• I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Good
  • Live
  • Player

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Job

• Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • Education
  • Cutting

• We were like, ‘Hey, what are you doing!?’ but soon twigged they were trying to give us a proper Japanese welcome by carrying our bags for us. Great. This was the life. Then we looked round and saw Gillian still struggling with hers. Turns out that in this culture they don’t help a woman. We got her a trolley.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Life
  • Japanese
  • Bags

• Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Soul
  • English
  • Funk

• Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

  

  Cecelia Ahern