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

• 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

• 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

• For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

  

  Edward Thorndike

• I live for the blank page.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Live

• I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'

  

  Demetri Martin

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

  

  Elyn Saks
  • Mind

• I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Song
  • Challenge
  • Attitude

• 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