Burchardt Ford Quotes

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It ~ Henry Ford

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

he invited Sylvia to dine with him somewhere where they were going to have something fabulous and very nasty at about two guineas the ounce on the menu. Something like that! And during dinner Sir John had entertained her by singing the praises of her husband. He said that Tietjens was much too great a gentleman to be wasted on the old-furniture trade: that was why he hadn't persisted. But he sent by Sylvia a message to the effect that if ever Tietjens did come to be in want of money . . . Occasionally Sylvia was worried ~ Ford Madox Ford

I haven't seen anyone for years," he said, "not anyone. I can hardly remember how to speak. I keep forgetting words. I practise, you see. I practise by talking to ... talking to ... what are those things people think you're mad if you talk to? Like George the Third."
"Kings?" suggested Ford.
"No, no," said Arthur. "The things he used to talk to. We're surrounded by them for Heaven's sake. I've planted hundreds myself. They all died. Trees! I practise by talking to trees. What's that for?"
Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
"Shake," prompted Ford. ~ Douglas Adams

I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford. ~ David Mandel

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man. ~ Tom Ford

You can get it in any color, as long as it is black ~ Henry Ford

Like so many things Henry had wanted in life
like his father, his marriage, his life
it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in. ~ Jamie Ford

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. ~ Gerald R. Ford

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii. ~ Dwayne Johnson

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up. ~ Richard Ford

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's. ~ Debbie Ford

You and Mama, both of you dress loud enough a blind man can feel you coming. ~ Rhys Ford

It was detestable to him to be in control of another human being – as detestable as it would have been to be himself a prisoner. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice. ~ Harold Ford, Jr.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with. ~ Debbie Ford

Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."
"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried? ~ Greg Cox

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. ~ Edward Abbey

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face. ~ Colin Trevorrow

I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy. ~ Tom Ford

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball's greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself ... Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game. ~ Ford Frick

Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing. ~ Douglas Adams

The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what. ~ Ruth Ford Elward

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late. ~ Betty Ford

Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy. ~ Debbie Ford

I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board. ~ Harrison Ford

Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time. ~ Debbie Ford

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. ~ John M. Ford

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good. ~ Stewart Udall

Lyft is enabling an exciting new model of freedom and personal mobility, as evidenced by its millions of satisfied users. ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people being constantly unhappy so it can keep selling us the promise that consumerism will make our lives better. ~ Clementine Ford