Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
-
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
-
Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
-
Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
-
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
-
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
-
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
-
My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
-
My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
-
I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
-
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
-
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
-
I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
-
Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
-
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
-
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
-
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
-
My mother often tells me not to drive back home late in the night. But like all youngsters, I suggest that there is nothing to worry. I tell her I have my driver, I have my security.
-
I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
-
Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
-
My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.
-
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
-
Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.
