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

• Willow: Hey, clothes.Tara: Better not get used to 'em.

  

  Amber Benson

• When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• 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

• I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Cat

• 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

• I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• 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

• I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

  

  Alan Alda
  • Gun
  • Carry
  • Grant

• Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Realizing

• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  

  Erik Spiekermann
  • Understanding
  • Differences
  • Architect

• I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Art
  • Inspiration
  • Studio

• 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