Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.

Cecelia Ahern

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Think
  • Never
  • Stability

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Music
  • Live
  • Job

• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Universe

• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Enemy
  • Gossip

• Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Sun
  • Shine

• A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

  

  Prince
  • Eyes
  • Prince

• Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Long

• For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Truth

• I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Work
  • Great

• Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

  

  Dennis Farina

• To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Style

• There's just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and there's something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, you're usually going to have a good time.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, 'I saw the Lord,' &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.

  

  Maimonides
  • Intelligent

• The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

  

  Socrates
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning
  • Definition

• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Poor
  • Poet
  • Only

• Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Change
  • Space
  • Representation

• Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Fool
  • Recognition