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.

Carrie Fisher

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• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• 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

• I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Law
  • Community

• 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

• The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Insects
  • Capricious

• Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Man
  • Americans

• I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Imagination
  • Film
  • Images

• Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Women
  • Girls
  • Black Men

• 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