H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

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.

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

I like all kinds of movies. I really do.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

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.

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

I like old people when they have aged well.

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

We can doubt the Lord when we go through tough times, but you know that He's always got your best interest at heart.

Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy all the time. There's no better one than that for sure.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.

"That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.

How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?

I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.

Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.