Top 695 Gerald Ford Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.

Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.

I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

I really dig Tom Ford. It fits big dudes, but it's the cleanest, most elegant-looking clothing ever.

I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third.

The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

I have a whole new appreciation for Carroll Shelby, the Ford program of the 1960s, and it's awesome that Superformance is keeping the dream alive with their incredible cars.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of organization and leadership.

When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

Usually when I talk with other drivers, it's about past races, what they did, tips for different tracks, especially others in the Ford family.

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

I liked the fact DAKS was an unknown quantity. It's more like Gucci before Tom Ford got there. There's a lot you can do.

Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.

There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

I really like a lot of Tom Ford. His leather sneakers are my most worn shoes.

The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

You might be a redneck if...you think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

My go-to products are a Tom Ford tinted moisturiser, an Armani foundation and a Smashbox mascara.

My dad's first-ever real true job was at Ford Motor Company. He was a UAW member.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?