Quotes About Tietjens

#1. Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.

Ford Madox Ford

#2. And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room.

Ford Madox Ford

#3. As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.

Ford Madox Ford

#4. But to betray her with battalion ... That is against decency, against Nature ... And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

Ford Madox Ford

#5. Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

Gena Rowlands

#6. He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Ford Madox Ford

#7. His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.

Ford Madox Ford

#8. That's a dead flower she'd holding. How's it gonna look cute?" Flash glanced back again and shook his head. "Man, it's beyond dead. I've got Legos with more life than that plant."
"That's why everyone calls Emily Black Thumb, because she somehow kills every plant she gets.

Vonnie Davis

#9. He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!

Ford Madox Ford

#10. It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

Ford Madox Ford

#11. The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! ... It was, of course, just like German spools to go mining by candle-light. Obsoletely Nibenlungen-like. Dwarfs probably!

Ford Madox Ford

#12. It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.

Ford Madox Ford

#13. You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

Ford Madox Ford

#14. A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

Octavia Butler

#15. He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.

Ford Madox Ford

#16. To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

Dylan McDermott

#17. I knew a man who had a dumb wife. He was ever so happy.

Bernard Cornwell

#18. Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.

Ada Maria Soto

#19. But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Ford Madox Ford

#20. How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

Golda Meir

#21. What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!

Ford Madox Ford

#22. That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!

Ford Madox Ford

#23. He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money ... and sex. This fellow apparently hadn't. Better for him if he had!

Ford Madox Ford

#24. The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only
work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all:
whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher,
was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman!

Ford Madox Ford

#25. Do you know what Hell is? ... No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

Thomm Quackenbush

#26. It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

#27. For every minute you are sad, you are losing a whole 60 seconds of happiness.

Chen Chen

#28. The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so.

Ford Madox Ford