Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.