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They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. — John Ford

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning. — Richard Widmark

He hath shook hands with time. — John Ford

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god. — Maureen O'Hara

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in. — Maureen O'Hara

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. — John M. Ford

Revenge proves its own executioner. — John Ford

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made. — John M. Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. — John Ford

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford

Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee! — John Ford

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. — John M. Ford

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors. — Winona Ryder

When in doubt, make a western. — John Ford

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. — John Ford

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. — John Ford

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles. — John Ford

Alas, poor gentleman,
He look'd not like the ruins of his youth
But like the ruins of those ruins. — John Ford

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt. — John M. Ford

I am ... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. — John Ford

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. — Orson Welles

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors. — Richard Farnsworth

Truth is child of Time. — John Ford

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day. — John Ford

Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident — John Ford

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. — John Ford

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them. — John Ford

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. — John Ford

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid. — Robert Wagner

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 them. — John Ford

Observe, don't imitate. — John M. Ford

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that. — Gloria Stuart

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies. — John Ford

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner. — John Ford

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it. — John Ford

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford

How did I get to Hollywood? By train. — John Ford

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. — Francis Ford Coppola

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him. — Lloyd Kaufman

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged — John M. Ford

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars. — John Steinbeck

Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With — Ashlee Vance

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. — John Ford

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice. — John Ford

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. — John Ford

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils. — John Ford

Love is a tyrant, resisted. — John Ford