Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

Cecelia Ahern

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• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Woman
  • Happiness

• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Policy
  • Temporary

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • May
  • Wall
  • Handwriting

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Father
  • Water

• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Sun

• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • School
  • Help

• My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • True
  • Mother
  • Stop

• Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Money
  • Government
  • Positive

• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Know

• You have to give people something to dream on.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • People
  • Dream on

• When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Mother
  • Profound
  • Died

• The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Universe
  • Snow

• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Good
  • Government
  • Ideas

• It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Number

• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Ideas
  • Differences
  • Faces