Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

Carrie Fisher

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• For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Effort

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Traveling

• Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Quality
  • Influence
  • Shadow

• Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Death
  • Small
  • Air

• But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Today

• It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

  

  Bill Budge
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Women

• When you value people, you give them freedom.

  

  Martha McSally
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Value

• Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

  

  Douglas Adams

• I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Up
  • motivation

• My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Opinion
  • Bridge

• I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

  Craig Fairbrass
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Dying

• My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Russia is a European country, and so we'd better, if we want a powerful Europe, negotiate with Russia.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Powerful

• The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Taken

• If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • People

• When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Loser

• I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• Well, this is shortly after the idea was put to me because it wasn't my idea to do a Christmas record. We can talk about that a little bit, if you like, later on. But I wrote that song actually about two days after the idea was put to me.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Littles

• When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.

  

  Andrew Buchan

• Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

  

  Carrie Fisher