Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Terrible
  • Accident

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Way
  • Stars

• Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Known
  • Destroying

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Freedom
  • Simple
  • Tolerance

• Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • You
  • Somebody
  • Introduce

• Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• If they come prying they can leave curious.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• 'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
  • Intuition

• This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Serious

• He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Men
  • Evil

• The 'enduring theme' in fiction of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Why
  • Taken
  • Sex

• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Spiritual

• I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing

• I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Life
  • Up

• With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
  • Political

• The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

  

  Baldur von Schirach
  • Body
  • Strive

• I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Men
  • Light