English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Richard Ford Quotes

Richard Ford quote: "Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the..."

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Richard Ford

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Harry Mathews quote: "I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society,..."
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. Harry Mathews
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair. Gary Sheffield
Tom Stoppard quote: "Stark raving sane."
Stark raving sane. Tom Stoppard
The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. C. S. Lewis
Wendell Phillips quote: "Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered..."
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips
I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman. Shia LaBeouf
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King jr.
Arthur Cohn quote: "You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me..."
You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you! Arthur Cohn
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy. Rosamund Pike
Annie Dillard quote: "People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television;..."
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. Annie Dillard
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir,... Patrick Henry
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze. Sherman Alexie
Debra Winger quote: "A good marriage is different to a happy marriage."
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. Debra Winger
Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do. Joel Osteen
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. Camille Paglia