Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Reading musses up my mind.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan

I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is?;"Elizabeth Carpenter

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

There was definitely frustration about Henri's non-appearance. We weren't happy about it.

America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

Me: Hi there, I want to make an appointment to get my car fixed. Teller Lady: Alright, what kind of car is it? Me: It's a 1997 Ford Contour. Teller: And what's the year of your car?

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Amanda: Do you think that guy on TV is cute? Mom: Well... he's okay, but he's no Mel Gibson. Amanda: Mom, nobody is Mel Gibson. Except Harrison Ford!

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?;"Thomas Henry Huxley

Do you want me to suck yours?;"Janet Henry, referring to a lollipop

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this-Henry Ford

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

History is more or less bunk.

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.