Carrie Fisher on Success
Monday, July 31st, 2006There is no point at which you can say, Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.
- Carrie Fisher
There is no point at which you can say, Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.
- Carrie Fisher
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
- Josh Billings
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
- Henri Matisse
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
- Stewart Alsop
The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.
- Edward Thomas