Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
Quotes to Explore
-
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
-
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
-
In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
-
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
-
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
-
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
-
Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
-
And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
-
It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
-
Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
-
'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
-
The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
-
'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.
-
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
-
At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
-
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
-
More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.
-
I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
-
Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.
-
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
-
We the U.S. think nothing…of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
-
There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
-
That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
-
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
