Top 100 Fisher Quotes
#1. Her pain was so jagged. You couldn't touch her without it slicing through you too. I wanted to fold myself around her and absorb the rest of the blows life would deliver.
Tarryn Fisher
#2. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#3. I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You
Carrie Fisher
#4. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James Fisher
#5. We may face situations beyond our reserves but never beyond God's resources.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#6. People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
Carrie Fisher
#7. Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Helen Fisher
#8. I kill because I can. I kill because no one stops me. I kill because no one is stopping them. I kill to protect the innocent.
Tarryn Fisher
#9. Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.
Jeff Fisher
#10. With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
Derek Fisher
#11. I'm a coward, January. I'm not sure if I can handle another heartbreak and I know if I fell for you, I'd fall so hard there'd be no coming back from it. You're extraordinary.
Fisher Amelie
#13. Are you a degenerate, Fisher?"
"I'm working on it.
Claire Gibson
#14. We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.
Helen Fisher
#15. Who wants to hide from the truth? Maybe people who have had too much of it. Or people who have had too little. Or people who are too shallow to appreciate its hard edges. #TRUTH
Tarryn Fisher
#16. I won't be the reason you don't go to him. I won't be your excuse. You've got to see for yourself, or you'l never be able to let him go
Jeremiah Fisher
Jenny Han
#17. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.
Tarryn Fisher
#18. Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.
Julie Fisher
#19. We make love every single day - no matter what. She is the only woman I've seen that gets more beautiful with age. She is the only woman I see.
Tarryn Fisher
#20. Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
Ronald Fisher
#21. I laugh and go back to looking at my magazine. Actually, it's not really a magazine. It's a math journal, because I'm super cool like that.
Tarryn Fisher
#22. P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They dedicate entire days to broadcasting her music. They love her that much. Five words. My. Heart. Will. Go. On. Yeah.
Fisher Amelie
#23. Whoever coined the phrase 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder,' was an idiot.
Absence makes a bitch go crazy.
Toni Aleo
#24. Either way, you wrote the book and now you're complaining about the reviews I'm giving it," I quipped.
"Fair enough." He held up his hands, "I'm going to start writing the sequel which will be considerably less narcissistic. Will you read it?"
"Only if every other girl on campus hasn't.
Tarryn Fisher
#25. Maybe our souls touched underneath that tree. Maybe I decided to love her. Maybe love wasn't our choice. But when I looked at that woman, I saw myself differently.
Tarryn Fisher
#26. I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
Carrie Fisher
#27. You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.
Helen Fisher
#28. My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Helen Fisher
#29. Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
Faye Weldon
#30. Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And endurable.
Karen Fisher
#31. As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.
Helen Fisher
#32. It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is ONE left.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#33. But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
Fisher Stevens
#34. People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.
Kenneth Fisher
#35. You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, Aww. They've just been told.
Carrie Fisher
#36. This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.
Fisher Stevens
#37. Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
H.A.L. Fisher
#38. He had brown hair, piercing green eyes and jaw line that screamed 'I might just let you kiss me here'.
Fisher Amelie
#39. I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo
Tarryn Fisher
#40. Seattle gives you your breath back. Fills your lungs. I take it in and feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life.
Tarryn Fisher
#41. You're my hiding place. I go to you when I'm messed up.
Tarryn Fisher
#42. No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.
Fisher Amelie
#43. A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
Carrie Fisher
#44. In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.
Rudolph Fisher
#45. Actually, he told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, "You know, I never read that warning on the label." I thought it said heavy machinery, not homosexuality - turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along! Turning
Carrie Fisher
#46. They came out. They were children. They wore rags and their skin was livid with sores. Their veins were tubes, their hair wire. Sapphique reached out and touched them.
'You are the ones who will save us,' he said.
Catherine Fisher
#47. Blessed are those who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#48. What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little
Carrie Fisher
#49. Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#50. I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.
Catherine Fisher
#51. What sort of work do you do?"
Lifting her skirts with one hand, still holding the owl in the other, she started for the cottage. "Quickening. Citizens of this spacetime call it clockwork magic."
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Sharon Lynn Fisher
#52. A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames
#53. It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."
Carrie Fisher
#54. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.
Ronald Fisher
#55. The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I've always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. When it's time for one season to be over, the next seasons splits open and pours over the world, drowning its tired and waning predecessor with its strength.
Tarryn Fisher
#56. For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.
Irving Fisher
#57. Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.
Helen Fisher
#58. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct
Carrie Fisher
#60. In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.
Kenneth Fisher
#61. Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
Carrie Fisher
#62. Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do.
Tarryn Fisher
#63. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#64. I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.
Carrie Fisher
#65. Sincerity is one of those rare human qualities that feels a bit like discovering a lost treasure. It is a rare commodity but once found, it absolutely priceless. That was Callum, pretty much in a nutshell.
Fisher Amelie
#66. Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
Helen Fisher
#67. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.
Carrie Fisher
#68. If I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life. That I'd be the one to slay dragons for that kiss.
Tarryn Fisher
#69. We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
Carrie Fisher
#70. The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)
Carl G. Fisher
#71. Their story will never be over. She's married, you know? So, technically you have some time to make your husband fall in love with you.
Tarryn Fisher
#72. Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
Carrie Fisher
#73. She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#74. All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique
Catherine Fisher
#75. You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
Carrie Fisher
#76. He's a filler. You know - stuff something into your heart quickly to stop it from cracking open.
Tarryn Fisher
#77. You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.
Isla Fisher
#78. She will be your destruction. She's not healthy."
"Then let her destroy me.
Tarryn Fisher
#79. I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
Joely Fisher
#80. Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
Helen Fisher
#81. My god, he's the one who gets the girls? What? Is he made of chocolate or something?
Fisher Amelie
#82. A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.
M.F.K. Fisher
#83. Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.
M.F.K. Fisher
#84. I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.
Tarryn Fisher
#85. Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
Helen Fisher
#86. One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#87. All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.
Carrie Fisher
#88. How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the nay-sayer to life," he thought
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#89. I'll always want you, Olivia. It was never about not wanting you, it was about wanting you too much and you not wanting me back!
Tarryn Fisher
#90. Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#92. Love was sacrificing your selfish nature for someone you were more committed to than yourself
Tarryn Fisher
#93. Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.
Isla Fisher
#94. On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
M.F.K. Fisher
#95. Trying to walk away from something you love is like trying to drown yourself. You want to, but it's unnatural to not crave air.
Tarryn Fisher
#96. Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
Carrie Fisher
#97. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#98. I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
Carrie Fisher
#99. An unkind remark is like a killing frost - no matter how much it warms up, the damage is already done.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#100. That's the thing with Holy Moses: big as a house and scary as heck if you don't know him, but Charley Manson and his whole family could come parading through here and he'd give them you room key for a slice of sharp cheddar.
Ms. Fisher, The Last Stop
Kirt J. Boyd
