John M. Ford Quotes

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Hate

• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Past
  • Undo

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Reading
  • Passion

• The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Director

• The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Chance
  • Journalism
  • Upside

• America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • America
  • Values
  • Immigration

• Do not thy passions counteract What thy lips utter? Thy going in thy course into valleys, Dark without lights. And mine were his words. And mine were his languages.

  

  Taliesin
  • Words
  • Dark

• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Putin should simply be called a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

• I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • People
  • Game
  • Fighting

• Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

  

  Koren Zailckas
  • Born
  • Drink
  • Finished

• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God

• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  

  Doug Larson

• You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Eyes
  • Year
  • Curves

• There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

  

  John M. Ford