Oldish Ford Quotes

#1. Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

Chuck Close

#2. Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Leo Rosten

#3. I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through him.
"I'm over here," he said.
I said, "No wonder I can't touch you. You're dead too." Or perhaps I didn't say it.

Sarah Micklem

#4. [Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things
a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer
and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.

Anne Lamott

#5. A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

Ming-Dao Deng

#6. They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in.

Christina Dodd

#7. deaf ear is evidence of a closed mind.

John C. Maxwell

#8. What the fuck, Dexter," Deborah said accusingly, as if it were my fault the two blood types were different. "I'm sorry," I said, not at all sure what I was apologizing for, but quite certain from her tone of voice that I should.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. Yama servants known as Shravan and Shravani.

Jaipal Singh Datta

#10. Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

Caitlin Moran

#11. I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

Alan G. Poindexter

#12. Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.

Linda Perry

#13. I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.

Chris Evans

#14. There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

Elizabeth Hernandez