Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Country
  • Always
  • Honor

• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Important
  • Today
  • Culture

• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Home

• I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids

• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Discipline

• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• Whoever invented the word ‘grace’ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • She
  • Strong

• Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dirty

• How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book

• Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • Work
  • Together
  • Cooking

• It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

  

  F. J. Foakes-Jackson
  • Trying
  • Kindness
  • Clever

• All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

  

  Jim Knight
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • World
  • Children
  • Heart

• Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Men
  • Children