Harrison Ford Quotes

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

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• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Creation
  • Step
  • Destroy

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • God
  • Funny
  • Religion

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Why
  • Help
  • Care

• I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

  

  Larry Norman
  • God
  • Career
  • Earth

• When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Working

• My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Job
  • Cutting
  • Walk

• I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Important
  • Home
  • Father

• Being God would be the ultimate.

  

  Macy Gray
  • God
  • Being
  • Would

• Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Great
  • Art
  • Fun

• I'd just like to say to everybody that it's best to check out the independent life: the independent stores and the independent everybodies. We should try not to give our money to any corporations, if we can help it.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Help

• I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Up

• Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Cancer

• For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Words
  • Eyes

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Ambition