Richard Ford Quotes

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Richard Ford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1944

Topics

LifeThoughtLiteratureYouHuman

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

Jen Sincero

LivePeopleReachMediocritySilent

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

Jennifer Aniston

MenRelyEitherThemShun

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

Melanie Fiona

MusicDayPeopleEnd Of The DayEnd

I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.

Steve Erickson

MeThinkMakeI ThinkConclude

Some people think it's a reality that black fathers don't take care of their children, but that's not true.

Sinbad

ChildrenPeopleBlackThinkReality

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Louis Dudek

WorkReligionPoetryEffortThought

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Jay Reatard

TimeManLongYouTableLong Time

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

Jason Katims

LifeTimeDayWritingDecisionsYou

With 'Aurangzeb,' I just knew that the film wasn't going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I did the film too early in my career, but I stand by it.

Arjun Kapoor

WorkThinkStandEarlyCareerGoing

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Pierre Salinger

HistoryForgottenWholeGenerations

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

Peter Fonda

GoodSonMeAmericaEasyCaptain

We are constantly auditing our supply chain. Making sure that safety standards are - are, you know, are the highest. We're making sure that working conditions are the highest.

Tim Cook

SafetyYouKnowStandardsSureOur

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