Top 100 Fisher Quotes
#1. Are you a degenerate, Fisher?"
"I'm working on it.
Claire Gibson
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.
Thomas Bastard
#8. I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
Tre Cool
#9. But there are no men here," said Mrs. Wilkins, "so how can it be improper? Have you noticed," she inquired of Mrs. Fisher, who endeavoured to pretend she did not hear, "How difficult it is to be improper without men?
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#10. Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to 'Never be daunted in private'.
- M.F.K. Fisher A Is for Dining Alone
Jenni Ferrari-Adler
#11. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.
Donald Faison
#12. My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!
Kenneth Fisher
#13. As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
Jane Green
#14. The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Alice Cary
#15. When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
Kate Christensen
#16. I will make you a fisher of men
Anonymous
#17. If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story ...
Paul Schullery
#18. Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
Ted Dekker
#19. A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
William Watson
#20. Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'
George Steiner
#21. A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
David James
#22. When you learn to accept instead of expect, you'll have fewer disappointments. - Robert Fisher
Kristen Noel
#23. Billie Katherine Lourd Is the daughter of Carrie Fisher and Brian Lourd. She thinks she would do a good job playing Princess Leia. But really, she wouldn't. -Anonymous
Anonymous
#25. That is a strong possibility Fisher, thank you for that resounding moment of entertainment," replied Gordon sarcastically.
Kevin Eleven
#27. through the transcript. Some colleagues, at least, found the whole exercise droll. Fisher Ames, a Federalist
Michael Waldman
#28. I punched my hand through the water. I wanted to kick his ass. 'This is between me and Belly.' Smug piece of shit. - Conrad Fisher
Jenny Han
#29. One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher
J.E.B. Spredemann
#30. Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
#31. I'd hate to be the woman who gets to marry Wally. I mean, imagine having to be nice to a maggot white dick every night.
No thank you.
- Simon Sixsmith in "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me".
Eric Bishop-Potter
#32. Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.
Warren Buffett
#33. Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world - whether it's the true one or not. Maybe it is better so. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#34. It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils. (The Fisher King)
Jack H. Lucas
#35. The sun has set," said Horne Fisher, in the same terrible tones, "and he will never see it rise again.
G.K. Chesterton
#36. Read Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Susan Fisher, M.D., and Mary Watkins, Ph.D. (Yale University Press, 1995).
Sherrie Eldridge
#37. But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.
Dave Barry
#38. You cannot build ships in a hurry with a Supplementary Estimate. Admiral Sir J. A. Fisher to Lord Charles Beresford. 27th February 1902.
Stephen Wentworth Roskill
#40. You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher.
Deyth Banger
#41. You just finished a job, as you refer to it. You must be tired and I can only imagine the enervating quality of an added threat of the state pen."
"California's state pen is Fisher," Cat said. "It can write upside down, but I think a pencil works better for that.
Nina Post
#42. My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing.
Lyle Lovett
#43. Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher?
Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on?
Calvin Trillin
#44. What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
Patrick F. McManus
#45. Lucas had narrowed his lead threesome down to two competing groups: in one was Walken, Will Seltzer, and Terri Nunn, a trio Lucas described as "a little more serious, a little more realistic"; in the other, Ford, Hamill, and Fisher, a group Lucas called "a little more fun, more goofy.
Brian Jay Jones
#46. Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum
#47. I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.
Joely Fisher
#48. When Conrad Fisher told a girl he loved her, he meant it. A girl could believe in that. A girl could maybe even bet her whole life on it.
Jenny Han
#49. Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
Izaak Walton
#50. A streak of bare flesh darted past our door.
Mason grinned at me. "It's like we didn't even miss Fisher's party tonight."
My nurse sprinted past our door, followed by another two.
Tijan
#51. But we found San Salvatore," said Mrs. Arbuthnot, "and it is rather silly that Mrs. Fisher should behave as if it belonged only to her."
"What is rather silly," said Mrs. Wilkins with much serenity, "is to mind. I can't see the least point in being in authority at the price of one's liberty.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#52. if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.
Charles Kingsley
#53. I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.
Phil Jackson
#54. I always like it when someone attractive to me agrees with me, so I have fond memories of Phil Fisher. The idea that it was hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obviously good idea. But 98% of the investment world doesn't think this way.
Charlie Munger
#55. The anthropologist Helen Fisher, in Why We Love, has beautifully expressed the insanity of romantic love, and how over-the-top it is compared with what might seem strictly necessary.
Richard Dawkins
#56. You're going to break my heart, Sparrow Fisher. And I think, Not before you break mine.
Willow Aster
#57. Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Natalie Babbitt
#58. My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
Courtney Love
#59. Our impatience is so implacable that, as actress-author Carrie Fisher quipped, even "instant gratification takes too long.
Carl Honore
#60. I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
Carrie Fisher
#61. Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.
Elizabeth Taylor
#62. Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale.
Seth Dickinson
#63. You definitely are deep water Dr. Fisher. Fathoms deep.
J.M. Richards
#64. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#65. If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
Justin Cronin
#66. M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life.
Ruth Reichl
#67. Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
Thomas Adams
#68. The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
Erik Larson
#70. Fisher twined his fingers with mine and when he did, the feeling was the best thing in the world, like it was always better to be this tangled up, to always have a piece of each other.
Brenna Yovanoff
#72. Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.
Anita Borg
#73. When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.
Robert Doisneau
#74. I don't just want a part of you. I want all of you
Jeremiah Fisher
Jenny Han
#75. I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
Elvis Presley
#76. A man must consent to look to a foolish, innocent, adolescent part of himself for his cure. The inner fool is the only one who can touch his Fisher King wound.
Robert A. Johnson
#77. My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award.
Sharon Lawrence
#78. Martyr More,' he says. 'The word is in Rome that he and Fisher are to be made saints.
Hilary Mantel
#79. I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
Izaak Walton
#80. Ronald Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.
Anders Hald
#81. Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.
Kerry Greenwood
#82. R2D2 has gotten more work since "Star Wars" than Carrie Fisher
Gilbert Gottfried
#83. I never once cheated on you. I never even looked at another girl when we were together.
Conrad Fisher
Jenny Han
#84. Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
Barbara W. Tuchman
#85. Who are you?" he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. "I told you. Anna Fisher. And I happen to be starving, so let's go." I tugged at his arm and led him back in line.
J.M. Richards
#86. I know too much," said Horne Fisher, "and all the wrong things.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. Is it so impossible that Conrad Fisher would like me?
Jenny Han
#88. Well, as I said, you look terrible, for one thing. Beat-up terrible. Like someone was using you as a punching bag." He ran a hand gently over his face. "Is it really that bad?" He sighed as I nodded. "Is that the only reason for your concern, Dr. Fisher?" He paused in between bites.
J.M. Richards
#89. The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
Dean Martin
#90. My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn't know it was going to happen like this.
Jenny Han
#91. In stillness I notice how time and space disappear. All there is is the present moment and my willingness to listen ... to allow the stillness to speak-Eileen Fisher
Ellyn Spragins
#92. Upon my word," thought Mrs. Fisher, "the way one pretty face can turn a delightful man into an idiot is past all patience.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#93. This book could corrupt or debauch. It would not make suitable reading for Boy Rangers, Aunt Matilda, or those contemplating a life of celibacy. - Eric Bishop-Potter on "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me.
Eric Bishop-Potter
#94. Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.
Joanna Baillie
#95. I actually met Carrie Fisher a couple of years ago. When I told her that she was my first crush, she insisted that we get married and have a reality show about it. I'm lucky to have made it out of that weekend without getting married.
Joe Manganiello
#96. Thanks," I say, stepping into the room.
Do brothers thank each other?
Probably not.
I should have said something along the lines of, "Took you long enough, asshole."
Hoover, Colleen; Fisher, Tarryn (2015-01-07). Never Never (p. 75). Hoover Ink. Kindle Edition.
Tarryn Fisher
#97. I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but what he did is succeed and have a great career. I'm looking forward to learning from him. I've never played in the system, so I want to get there early.
Shane Larkin
#98. 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
#99. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#100. I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You
Carrie Fisher
