S.R. Ford Quotes
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.
I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.
We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself