John Ford Quotes

33 quotes in 309 categories

• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
• Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
• Revenge proves it's own executioner.
• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is:…
• Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.
• How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
• Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
• To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of…
• The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
• I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
• I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
• I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war…
• Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
• Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
• Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
• Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!
• What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.
• Truth is child of Time.
• Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
• They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

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