Luke Ford Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
-
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
-
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
-
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
-
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
-
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
-
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
-
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
-
When you're rich you don't write checks.
-
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
-
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
-
We run to win, not just to be in the race.
-
Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
-
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
-
My kids can't eat awards.
-
In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.
-
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
-
One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.
