Catherine Fisher Quotes

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Catherine Fisher

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• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Attention
  • Struggle
  • Daughter

• Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Political
  • Education

• If I am meant to do a Bollywood film, I will get it. If not, I won't. I really don't differentiate between industries. As long as I get roles that give me a high, I enjoy it.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Roles
  • Bollywood
  • Industries

• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Leadership

• I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Always
  • Sister
  • Inside

• It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Real

• I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Thought
  • Enemy
  • Lies

• Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Christian
  • Organization
  • Authority

• I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Important
  • Done
  • Think

• My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
  • True
  • Mother

• Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Creating
  • Flowers
  • Proust

• Warren Buffett met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Warren Buffett
  • American role

• None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Ideas
  • Enough
  • Concerned