Steven Ford Quotes

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Best
  • Door

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• I come from a pretty strange family.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Strange

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Love
  • Grandfather

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Think
  • Always
  • Answer

• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great

• Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.

  

  Patanjali

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learning

• I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Good

• I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

  

  Lee Smith
  • People

• From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

  

  Jim Morris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • People
  • Good
  • Freedom

• Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

  

  John Burdett
  • Light

• Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Earth
  • Bringing
  • Manure