Cecelia Ahern Quotes

What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

Cecelia Ahern

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• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Laws
  • Now And Then

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Myself
  • Finding
  • Secrecy

• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Thought
  • Transformation

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • She
  • Woman
  • Care

• If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Body
  • Strength

• Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • High
  • Energy

• Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • You
  • motivation
  • Succeed

• The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Television is taking over the Internet.

  

  Jeff Bewkes

• It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

  

  Plato
  • Way
  • I Think
  • Excellence

• From Themistocles began the saying, 'He is a second Hercules.'

  

  Plutarch

• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Science

• I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Miracle