Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Support
  • Play
  • Listening

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• People like to see showdowns.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Like
  • See

• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
  • My Own

• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  

  Babasaheb

• Travel is stressful.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Travel

• I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

  

  James Randi
  • Popular

• In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  

  Fritz Todt

• When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

  

  Janet Echelman

• When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Comedy
  • Forever
  • Chicago

• I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Immortality
  • Immortal

• High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Religion

• I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking