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

• Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • World
  • Important
  • She

• People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dark
  • Pitch
  • Blackness

• My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Humanity

• The question, 'How well does one read?' is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is 'How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?' No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Bad
  • History
  • Science

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Dark
  • Destination
  • Blazing