Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

Isla Fisher

• Motherhood
• Discuss
• Publicly

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• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Perfect
  • Space
  • Modern

• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Most

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Same
  • Company

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Hand
  • Movies
  • See

• You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • History
  • Day

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Italian

• Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Action
  • Paradise

• The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Course
  • Designed
  • USGA

• The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

  

  James Cameron
  • Mind
  • Magic

• Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

  

  David Cassidy
  • True
  • Dream
  • Passion

• What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Dirty

• If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

  

  Lubna Olayan
  • Progress

• I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.

  

  Jim Harrison

• I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

  

  John C. Reilly

• O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Life
  • Sick

• I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Control

• The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Dream
  • Pleasure
  • Majority

• I guess it raises questions of what they will discuss if they do exclude the public.

  

  Dick Williams
  • Questions
  • Public
  • Discuss

• You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Motherhood
  • Discuss
  • Publicly