Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

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• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • World
  • Long
  • Me

• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Boy
  • Accomplishments

• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Small
  • Community

• Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Help
  • Community

• I grew up in New York.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Man

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Truth
  • Sex
  • Stress

• Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Law

• Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Freedom

• You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years . . . . it’s a very strange world.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World

• Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Writing

• Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons

• My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Money
  • Relationship

• The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Ambition

• The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Jesus

• How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?

  

  Polybius
  • Fighting
  • Honor
  • Ambition

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

  

  Carrie Fisher