Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

Cecelia Ahern

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Virtue

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Control
  • Me
  • Marriage

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• I've always liked new writing.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Writing
  • Always
  • New

• There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Eating
  • Eat
  • Cow

• It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • America
  • Know
  • Story

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Live

• J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.

  

  Anatole France

• I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • World
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • Serious

• Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Son

• Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Good
  • Family
  • She

• Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Good

• I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Thoughts

• My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • She
  • Dad
  • Daughter

• She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Humanity
  • Seeking
  • Stares

• I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Heart
  • Break