Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

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• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Mad

• I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Stories
  • Get
  • Most

• They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Women
  • True
  • Night

• I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Sometimes
  • Pressure
  • Realise

• It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Art
  • Nice
  • Fall

• The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Write
  • Identity
  • Inside

• The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

  

  April Winchell
  • American
  • Hate
  • Countries

• Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Ideas

• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Man
  • Peace

• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • Time
  • Challenge

• God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Christian

• Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Friends
  • Forget
  • Higher

• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sleep
  • Painting
  • Drink

• 'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Eyes
  • Fight
  • Mirror

• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Moving
  • Environment
  • Appreciate

• I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Olympics
  • Practicing
  • Bowl

• No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Weight
  • Turns
  • Tragic