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
  • High Heels

• 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
  • Role
  • Role Models

• 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
  • Program

• Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Insane
  • This Life

• Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Pride
  • Blest
  • Revolving

• As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Sea
  • Pleasant
  • Escaped

• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Help
  • Know
  • Daughter

• 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