Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

Carrie Fisher

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• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Personal
  • Beliefs

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

  

  Vanity
  • Over
  • Million
  • Offended

• A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Start

• Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Worry
  • End

• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Doing

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Thought
  • Ready

• Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Family
  • Education
  • Daughter

• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Women
  • Stability

• Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
  • Effort

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Forever

• I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Scrabble

• Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • You
  • Rest
  • Always

• When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Logic

• As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I enjoy it as much as I ever did. When you're a good rider on a good day, the bike doesn't rattle and bounce. You're smooth. Even if it's rough you can find a way to make the bike float.

  

  Cadel Evans
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Motivated

• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Fear
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Running
  • Sports
  • Politics