H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

I consider myself a pretty hardworking guy and I like to play hard, play physical and play well defensively too.

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

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.'

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

All my life I have dreamed of you.

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

Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you.

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

Underground, the stars are legend.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.