Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Carrie Fisher

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• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
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• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Home
  • Small

• The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Two
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• The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
  • Long
  • Earth

• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

  

  John Bright
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Depression

• Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Wife
  • Fans
  • Asks

• Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Why
  • Terrible
  • Flowers

• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • World
  • Success
  • Confidence

• Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • People
  • Animal

• You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Time
  • Sport
  • Worthwhile

• Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Up
  • American
  • Source

• I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Small
  • Library
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• Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Insane
  • This Life

• It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Soul
  • Mistake
  • Judge

• A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Failure

• The absent feel and fear every ill.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Fear
  • Feel
  • Ill

• The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.

  

  Witness Lee
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Lord

• I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Ashamed
  • Ill
  • Surviving