Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Carrie Fisher

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• Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Business
  • Kid
  • Orgies

• Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Courage
  • Sound
  • Triumph

• As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

  

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• Your actions are your only true belongings.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Actions
  • Belongings

• The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Hate

• I support artistic freedom and always have.

  

  Neil Portnow
  • Support
  • Artistic

• 'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences.

  

  Catherine Mary Stewart
  • First
  • Experiences
  • Labor

• Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt....It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Teach

• The work part of a relationship is keeping it where you want it.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Work
  • Want
  • Relationship

• I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

  

  Rich Brian
  • Used
  • Through
  • Drums

• When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Environment

• Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Obligation
  • Pessimistic

• Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

  

  Socrates
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Obscurity

• The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Car
  • Compare
  • Detroit

• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

  

  Anna Komnene
  • History
  • Created
  • Measure

• It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Freedom
  • Vision
  • Triumph

• Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Obscurity