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

• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• 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 warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Fall

• 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

• So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Evil

• Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

  

  Steven Hill
  • Talk
  • Requires
  • Date

• I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Done

• Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• People have sacrificed more to make me be happy than I could ever dream of.

  

  Chad Kelly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Dream

• 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