Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Fisher

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• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Know
  • Now
  • Journalism

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Hollywood

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Lies

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

  

  Quintilian

• It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Movie

• Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, 'Okay, cool. What's next?' You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, 'Yeah!'

  

  Charlie Cox
  • People
  • Cool
  • Emotional

• I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Criticism

• Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

  

  Chanakya
  • Wise

• I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • America
  • Black
  • Lost

• You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Bad

• People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Stories
  • Faces
  • Finals

• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Lust

• The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Husband

• No young man ever thinks he shall die.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Young

• Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Sports