Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

Carrie Fisher

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• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• Malebranche dirait qu’il n’y a plus une âme: Nous pensons humblement qu’il reste encor des cœurs.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Deep

• When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

  

  Edward Heath

• Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Long
  • Commitment

• Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; he's undergoing a systematic effort to change this country and make America more like the rest of the world. If I'm elected we'll embrace what makes America the greatest country in the world.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Why
  • Thoughts

• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Job
  • Black
  • Stop

• It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life
  • Why
  • Sad

• It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Live
  • Power
  • Rock

• If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

  

  Christen Press

• To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman.

  

  Che Guevara

• There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn’t even exist depending on whom you ask.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Listening

• Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Pain
  • Hurt