Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

Carrie Fisher

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• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Years

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Habits

• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Stop

• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Better

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Red

• 'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• 'There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Stop

• The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Complacency

• Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Thinking
  • Death

• Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Giving

• I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Risk

• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • World
  • Culture
  • Messages

• I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Ability