Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

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• There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Great
  • Tired
  • Sister

• We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Work
  • Great
  • Fun

• I proclaim with confidence that Britain can get right back into the world competitive race if only we can break free of the collective chains which hold us back. Unlike the socialists, who trust the state, we trust the people. That is why we are the party of freedom.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Not everyone knows when to be silent and when to go. It not infrequently happens that even diplomatic persons of good worldly breeding fail to observe that their presence is arousing a feeling akin to hatred in their exhausted or busy host, and that this feeling is being concealed with an effort and disguised with a lie.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Effort

• I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Business
  • Kids

• Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Value

• Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

  

  Bill Bixby
  • World

• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • People
  • Control

• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Value
  • Logic

• I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Good
  • Food
  • Spanish

• Hillary talks the talk, but in my view, she is as big a corporatist, as big a war monger, as big an imperialist as any of the Republican presidential candidates. Her rhetoric is less offensive.

  

  Jill Stein
  • She
  • War
  • Presidential

• You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Words

• I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

  

  Emma Watson

• The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Single

• I want to print books by people in the film industry.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • People

• I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Times

• I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

  

  John Bachman
  • Up
  • Small

• Those guys in the Persian Gulf War were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, 'What's G-12 do, Tommy?' 'Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort.' Well, shit, pull that one up!' 'Pull up G-12, please.' sound of a missile launch, several beats, then an explosion '...Cool. What's G-13 do?'

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Up
  • War
  • Cool

• I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Believe
  • Singing
  • Spiritual

• I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

  

  Carrie Fisher