Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
  • Sing
  • Shower

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Me
  • Mad
  • Difference

• It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • She
  • Wife
  • Famous

• It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Time
  • Work
  • Present

• My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Music
  • Free

• Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • Vision

• Swanky means classy and funky.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Classy

• Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Age
  • Professional

• There's no doubt about Prakash's abilities as a director.

  

  Ajay Devgan
  • Doubt

• There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

  

  James P. Carse
  • Game
  • Purpose
  • Winning

• It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Future
  • Pain

• You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

  

  Angel Cabrera
  • Knowledge
  • Golf

• I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Walks

• If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Men
  • Step
  • Died