Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Fisher

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• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Produce

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • God
  • Food
  • Never

• My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Long
  • Friends
  • American

• I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Film
  • Message
  • Picky

• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Now
  • Evidence
  • Cards

• The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Money
  • Small

• Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Job
  • Joy

• We have to be concerned about future obligations.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Future
  • Concerned
  • Obligations

• Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Life
  • Two
  • Life is

• Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

  

  Sai Baba
  • True
  • Light
  • Wisdom

• It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Good
  • Taken

• In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

  

  Kai Greene
  • Mind
  • Artist
  • Masterpiece

• To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • World
  • Good
  • Art

• I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Business
  • Remember

• We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Waves

• On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

  

  George Clooney
  • Play
  • Basketball
  • Doors

• Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Insane
  • Favourite
  • Nietzsche

• The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

  

  Olaf Stapledon

• It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

  

  Weegee
  • Famous
  • Summer
  • Strange

• Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Insane
  • Awards
  • Bipolar