S.R. Ford Quotes

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They're meditative. I have three a day.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

Imagine how great you will feel when you know your partner loves all of you, all the time. The good, the bad, and everything in between!

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

If you fear something, walk into it.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.