S.R. Ford Quotes

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Don't find the fault, find the remedy

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.