S.R. Ford Quotes

Truth is child of Time.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

There is no such thing as no chance.

I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

Death is what makes life an event.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

I define God as an energy. A spiritual energy. It has no denomination, it has no judgment, it has an energy that when we're connected to it we know why we're here and what we're here to do.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

A low wage business is always insecure.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

History's just one darn thing after another.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

There is joy in work.