Ford University Quotes & Sayings

Today we often use deadlines - real and imaginary - to imprison ourselves. — Arianna Huffington

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films! — Lloyd Kaufman

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward. — Mercedes McCambridge

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. — Theodore White

After I charge their brains with my own brand of skeptical electricity, I unleash them - the New Cynics - upon a world that is slowly and happily critiquing itself to death. — Kristopher Jansma

There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying. — Ahmed Yassin

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real — Ramana Maharshi

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that. — Andrew Van Der Bijl

Though he'd treated me like crap, I fell asleep thinking of how his bottom lip was slightly plumper than the top - perfect for kissing - and how those onyx eyes glittered when he first glanced at me. I knew he wouldn't be there in the morning, but I still hoped that I'd see him again. — Inger Iversen

I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky. — Kim Basinger

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.' — John Waters

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things. — Joss Whedon

This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a personal letter from Congressman Harold Ford Jr., who seemed to want to become Michael's friend, and a stack of letters from a football coach at the University of Alabama, who seemed prepared to offer his hand in marriage. — Michael Lewis

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried. — Rajneesh

Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen. — Howard Thurston

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them. — Henry Ford

Marty stayed busy as a chemistry major at Seattle University, — Jamie Ford

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner. — Friedrich Nietzsche