Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Unexpected

• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Country
  • Always
  • Doing

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Day
  • Doing

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.

  

  Andy Murray

• I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

  

  Jay Parini
  • House
  • Wife
  • Study

• Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Free
  • Past

• Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Men
  • Women

• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Great
  • Help
  • Singing

• I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Joy
  • Christian

• I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Room
  • Poison
  • Sit

• I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

  

  Kathleen Robertson
  • Bad

• However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Giving

• It's always a shock to me when I get recognized.

  

  Bryan Callen

• When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.

  

  Barney Hoskyns
  • People
  • Shows
  • Played

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Creative

• I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Creative