Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Carrie Fisher

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• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Country
  • American
  • Together

• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • You
  • Very

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Know
  • Dying
  • Bookstore

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Difference
  • Only

• I sometimes think God is a s-t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s-t.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Interesting

• Them gas prices are higher than a bus load of Mexicans at the Los Lobos concert.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Manipulation

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• I try to go to the gym. I either go on the rower or watch a TV show on the treadmill, and then I do some weight lifting.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Gym
  • Lifting

• Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • Black
  • Dark

• The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Up
  • Music
  • Character

• I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Problem
  • Dark

• As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Player

• I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Dark
  • Destination
  • Blazing