Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

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• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Fear

• I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Music

• In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

  

  Christen Press
  • Time
  • Player

• Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Trump

• I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Brain

• When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Work
  • Game
  • Health

• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mountain

• We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

  

  Albio Sires
  • Real
  • America
  • Health

• Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Great

• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  

  Brock Yates

• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Good

• The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Model

• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  

  John Eaton
  • Drama
  • Greek

• I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

  

  Genevieve Valentine
  • Good
  • Age
  • Beginning

• Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

  

  Augustus Toplady
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Cure

• As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Great
  • High
  • Society

• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Long
  • Age
  • Cold

• Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Missing
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