S.R. Ford Quotes

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

I have a lot of female fans.

If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.

...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When people learn that they do well whenever they work with you, they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities.

Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.

When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault.

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

You can't cheat the public for long.

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.