Heaslip Ford Quotes & Sayings

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! — Patsy Cline

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them. — Hugo Weaving

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt. — Philip Yancey

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story? — Jonathan Safran Foer

It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster. — Tom Udall

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. — Gracie Allen

I am no fan of books. — Stephen Colbert

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scripture of mankind. The New Testament is still, perhaps, too much on the lips and in the hearts of men to be called a Scripture in this sense. Such a juxtaposition and comparison might help to liberalize the faith of men ... This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the uttermost parts of the earth. — Henry David Thoreau

You know, Susey," he said, "they ruined a hell of a man when they cut the balls off you!" O'Malley never was one to tiptoe around a thing. — Spike Walker

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. — Haruki Murakami

Silence which in breaking up at dawn
will speak differently. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish, and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. Get all the functions and features you want, without that clunky-junky twentieth-century hardware thing. — William Gibson