Top 681 Ford Prefect Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat.

I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.

I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

One thing we're going to do is talk just about that: Obamacare, jobs. Our jobs are being taken away from us. Companies, as we speak, are signing documents with Mexico and other places to move. Our jobs be being... Look at Ford two weeks ago. Ford Motor. They're gonna make all of their smaller cars in Mexico. They're gonna move everything outta here. And so many... I mean, Carrier air-conditioners. I talk about all these companies. There are hundreds of companies. They're moving out to Mexico and other countries.

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com.

Tom Ford does everything perfect.

Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

Jimmy Ford is the baddest white man on the planet.

I bleed Ford blue.

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period.

I'll never forget the day I realized I wasn't quite the Ford model I thought I was.

The one I spend the most amount of time in is a Ford Galaxy, which my tour manager drives me around in and which I drive at the weekends. What I love about the Galaxy is the amount of space I get. I can get so much done in the back of it while we're on the road, it's like my mobile office! I've also got a Ford B-Max, which I'm a total evangelist about. It's got rear doors that slide. Now, I can't park, so those are the best things ever. You can park right up against a tree and still get out!

Ford is such an answered prayer and an absolute blessing.

To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.

Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

It's just cool to have lunch with Harrison Ford.

Rob Ford is a jabroni.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

There are no crown princes at Ford.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

I love Tom Ford loafers.

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

I should be paid to be a spokesman for Ford Transit.

I wear Tom Ford Traceless Foundation.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.

If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.

You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta

I used to be a huge fan of Francis Ford Coppola.

Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.

I worked with Glen Ford.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.

I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess...that I rather thought...you had enough responsibility to be going on with." Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

I definitely wear a lot of Tom Ford jackets on stage.

It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.