In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one...
RICHARD FORD I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the ...
RICHARD FORD I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have writte...
RICHARD FORD For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I ha...
RICHARD FORD Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to i...
RICHARD FORD Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic south...
RICHARD FORD She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, an...
RICHARD FORD For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more...
RICHARD FORD People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.
RICHARD FORD What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time ...
RICHARD FORD I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
RICHARD FORD My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.
RICHARD FORD I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I alm...
RICHARD FORD Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing i...
RICHARD FORD At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision w...
RICHARD FORD Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADOX FORD Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I...
FORD MADOX FORD I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi...
FORD MADOX FORD Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in exist...
FORD MADOX FORD You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned t...
FORD MADOX FORD But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...
FORD MADOX FORD I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
HARRISON FORD Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victim...
DEBBIE FORD Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD I started to dance and kind of entertained the crowd when I wasn't on the job, and the people seemed...
AL FORD I've been dancing all my life. I even won a contest at the Apollo Theatre in 1968.
AL FORD They've been putting it in for four years. They all are special girls who respect the program ..I'm ...
AL FORD They're in my league, I've seen them for four years, and they're special kids. You don't wake up one...
AL FORD I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we...
AL FORD She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t...
AL FORD It?s amazing. I knew she could shoot the ball. Sometimes I think it?s a confidence level for her and...
AL FORD We played hard. We gave it our best shot. We were hoping to come in here and steal one like (Eastern...
AL FORD On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel t...
DEBBIE FORD There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
FORD FRICK I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
FORD FRICK Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
FORD FRICK Keep your eye on the ball.
FORD FRICK Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
FORD FRICK Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
FORD FRICK Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as we...
FORD FRICK Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
FORD FRICK Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
FORD FRICK I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need t...
DEBBIE FORD When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.
JOHN FORD Diamonds cut diamonds.
JOHN FORD The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own bu...
HENRY FORD You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when yo...
DEBBIE FORD Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADDOX I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from ...
GLENN FORD I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,...
HARRISON FORD The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think...
HARRISON FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
LEIGHTON FORD I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough...
HENRY FORD When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire...
HENRY FORD I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes i...
JAMIE FORD She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
COREY FORD The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the bettermen...
HENRY FORD Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...
HENRY FORD Don't find fault, find a remedy.
HENRY FORD I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
HENRY FORD I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
HENRY FORD There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, inte...
HENRY FORD Never complain. Never explain.
HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
HENRY FORD You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
HENRY FORD I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
HARRISON FORD Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
HENRY FORD The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, t...
HENRY FORD It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
HENRY FORD Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
HENRY FORD Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching arou...
HENRY FORD A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
HENRY FORD It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
HENRY FORD A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
HENRY FORD Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
HENRY FORD You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to th...
HENRY FORD The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...
HENRY FORD Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
HENRY FORD If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be en...
HENRY FORD Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.
HENRY FORD History is more or less bunk.
HENRY FORD The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to dea...
HENRY FORD Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
HENRY FORD I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I...
HENRY FORD One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...
HENRY FORD There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can s...
HENRY FORD Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ON...
HENRY FORD Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
JOHN FORD There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
HENRY FORD Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
HENRY FORD When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
HENRY FORD Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
ANNA FORD An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
HENRY FORD Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.
HENRY FORD If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorro...
HENRY FORD Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
HENRY FORD Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead o...
HENRY FORD The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever s...
STERLING FORD Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow
JOHN FORD A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
HENRY FORD You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
HENRY FORD Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
HENRY FORD Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obvious...
HENRY FORD You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
HENRY FORD You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
HARRISON FORD Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right
HENRY FORD Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
HENRY FORD Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
JOHN FORD Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
HARRISON FORD The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obv...
HENRY FORD What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
HENRY FORD History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the presen...
HENRY FORD Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
HARRISON FORD You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
LITA FORD By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability...
DEBBIE FORD I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charg...
HENRY FORD I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it mad...
BETTY FORD I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book...
HARRISON FORD When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rew...
DEBBIE FORD There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished some...
HENRY FORD It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at ...
HARRISON FORD Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our dee...
DEBBIE FORD Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
HENRY FORD Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
HENRY FORD If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
HENRY FORD I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...
HARRISON FORD It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner ...
DEBBIE FORD When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is...
TOM FORD Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
TOM FORD A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
HENRY FORD I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
LUKE FORD The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world f...
LUKE FORD Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebod...
DEBBIE FORD Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at th...
DEBBIE FORD If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you m...
DEBBIE FORD Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.
DEBBIE FORD Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your i...
DEBBIE FORD Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, ch...
DEBBIE FORD As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a st...
DEBBIE FORD I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.
DEBBIE FORD To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become full...
DEBBIE FORD When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortles...
DEBBIE FORD You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacre...
DEBBIE FORD It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and d...
DEBBIE FORD It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who p...
HENRY FORD Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have o...
DEBBIE FORD One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...
HENRY FORD Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
HENRY FORD Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
HENRY FORD You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
HENRY FORD It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
HENRY FORD Any colour - so long as it's black.
HENRY FORD