Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Energy
  • Myself
  • Limit

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.

  

  Adam Draper
  • First
  • Now
  • China

• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Believe
  • Morning
  • Lion

• Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • God
  • Different

• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Different

• If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

  

  Matt Lauer

• Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • World
  • Discipline

• The great thing about interning at 'Teen Vogue' is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Work
  • Great
  • Growth

• I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.

  

  Ben Savage
  • Life
  • Done
  • Perfect

• Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

  

  Brenda Ueland
  • Great

• The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Time
  • Future

• Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Annoyed

• If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Movie

• Ever since I knew Dad did pentathlon, I wanted to do it as well. I have seen all his old photos, and he still has his Olympic riding jacket, and that makes this even more special.

  

  Chloe Esposito
  • Dad

• (Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People
  • Children
  • Moral

• I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Writing
  • Environment