2000+ Uniue Quotes & Sayings

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

Carrie Fisher

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Carrie Fisher

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

Carrie Fisher

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.

Carrie Fisher

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

Carrie Fisher

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.

Carrie Fisher

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.

Carrie Fisher

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

Carrie Fisher

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Clara Schumann

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Clara Schumann

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Clara Schumann

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Arthur Erickson

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Arthur Erickson

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Arthur Erickson

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Arthur Erickson

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson

I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.

Lily Collins

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

Lily Collins

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins

I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

Lily Collins

I have amazing memories of being able to travel and being able to have family all over the world.

Lily Collins

My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

Lily Collins

I'm in a relationship with myself. I think a lot of young girls should do that.

Lily Collins

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

Lily Collins

When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should get through things, so the idea that I could surround myself with truth and feel comfortable enough to speak mine allowed me to breathe.

Lily Collins

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Lily Collins

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

Lily Collins

I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.

Lily Collins

No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.

Lily Collins

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

Mary Steenburgen

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

Mary Steenburgen

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

Mary Steenburgen

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

Mary Steenburgen

Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

Kate Williams

Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

Kate Williams

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Robert Mapplethorpe

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Robert Mapplethorpe

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Robert Mapplethorpe

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

Beau Bridges

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Beau Bridges

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Beau Bridges