H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

I'm not a fashionista. I don't have much experience in that world.

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

What is life, but one long risk?

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

I don't want to be a victim.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.