Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

Carrie Fisher

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• They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Internet
  • Name
  • Cloud

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Uncle
  • Medical

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Know

• My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Garden

• I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Children

• Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Fear
  • Education
  • Learning

• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Confidence

• Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Democracy

• There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Cool

• What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Character
  • City

• There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Fear
  • Attention

• If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • History
  • True

• The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I'm not a stunning woman.

  

  Kathy Bates

• I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Childhood