Flivver Quotes & Sayings

Fortunate boys!' said the Controller. 'No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy - to preserve you, so as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.'
'Ford's in his flivver,' murmured the DHC. 'All's well with the world. — Aldous Huxley

We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human. — Zack Snyder

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. — Gary Hamel

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude. — Emily Post

I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death. — Robert Drew

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.' — Tove Lo

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world. — Aldous Huxley

I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it. — Damien Echols

If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own. — Iris Murdoch

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her. — Meghan O'Rourke