Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Cecelia Ahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 30, 1981

Topics

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I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

John Burnside

LifeLovePeopleWritingLongBig

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

Jerry Della Femina

SmallFastVocabularyMoveAround

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

ArtMuseumArgumentLivingSeeMust

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

GreatMenPeopleBrainyKnowSay

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Stephen Hawking

VoiceBetterSpeechOldKeepMade

I'm a quirky dude, man.

Tony Oller

ManQuirkyDude

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Michael Scheuer

ViolenceInsideMostLeastNoticed

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

Miles Davis

LoveThinkTopBeatDrumsPrince

Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

Loretta Lynch

LieTaxNeverHeMetMichael

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

BecomeChinaCriminalElements

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Demi Lovato

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One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

Chuck Todd

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