Ford Quotes

“and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels”
― Jill Shalvis, The Sweetest Thing

“I'll ruin everything if you touch me. I'll ruin us. I'll ruin this. I'll ruin you, just like you said. I'll ruin you and I'll ruin your life. And I love you too much to ruin you. So I'm leaving.”
― J.A. Huss, Panic

“Well it's not really a mystery. It was the day I met you, that's when. You've changed me, Rook. You make me weak, you make me stumble, you make me fall, and even though I know you'll pick me up if I ask you to, it's not enough. I want you to make me stronger, just like I made you. I want it all or I want nothing. And since I can't have it all, I'll take nothing.”
― J.A. Huss, Panic

“Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?"

Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet."

"Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!”
― Jill Shalvis, The Sweetest Thing

“All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?"
Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way.
"I don't know," he said, taking a pull of beer. "Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?"
Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said.

"And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table.

Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.”
― Jill Shalvis, Under the Mistletoe

“Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.”
― C.E. Murphy

“The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.”
― Gerald Ford

“At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of the pub, through the sound of the jukebox, through the sound of the man next to Ford hiccuping over the whiskey Ford had eventually bought him.
Arthur choked on his beer, leaped to his feet.
"What's that?" he yelped.
"Don't worry," said Ford, "they haven't started yet."
"Thank God for that," said Arthur, and relaxed.
"It's probably just your house being knocked down," said Ford, downing his last pint.
"What?" shouted Arthur. Suddenly Ford's spell was broken. Arthur looked wildly around him and ran to the window.
"My God, they are! They're knocking my house down. What the hell am I doing in the pub, Ford?"
"It hardly makes any difference at this stage," said Ford, "let them have their fun.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept.”
― Ron Hansen

“Street rods have a Chevy in front and a can of wax in the back; Hot Rods have a flathead in front and a box of tools in the back.”
― Fred Offenhauser

“I remember that look," she said. "It's the one you once gave Carlos right before you threatened to kick his ass."

"I can still kick ass," he said with absolute steel. "I just wanted you to know that.”
― Jill Shalvis, Under the Mistletoe

“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In a recent speech Walter Reuther told of a visit to the new automatically operated Ford plant in Cleveland. Pointing to the robots, his host asked him, “How are you going to collect union dues from those guys?” The C.I.O. president … returned an equally pertinent question: “And how are you going to get them to buy cars?”
― Walter Reuther

“I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

“To both of our surprises, I gripped her closer and squeezed her until she relaxed back into my arms. "Don't apologize for feeling things freely. Just because I'm bad at it, doesn't mean I don't envy it."
She sniffled and looked up at me. She shook her head and frowned. "Your issue is not that you don't feel, Ford. Your issue is that you feel too much." She smiled and put her head back on my racing heart.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We don’t know where any of this is going, do we?” she said, and she squeezed my hand tight again.

“No,” I said. And I knew that was not a bad thing at all, not for anyone, in any life. (Sweethearts, 1986)”
― Richard Ford

“I was transfixed. It wasn’t just the way she mastered the room. It wasn’t just how her choreography perfectly correlated with the entrancing music. It wasn’t just her sex appeal. It was that unwavering gaze and focus on her task. To the rest of the room, staring blatantly at her admirable- ahem-assets, she was an object, but I recognize the barely controlled passion rolling under her skin. What would it be like to be that strong? Not just physically, but strong in a way that allowed her to bare her soul to a group of greedy strangers. My passions were locked away safely inside me and yet she had put it all out there. Such bravery and passion.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“I think you look very...sufficient."
"You can do better than that Ford." She frowned.
I squeezed my fists and on a whoosh of breath said, "You take my breath away every time I look at you." I gently shut the door and jogged around to the driver's side.
I started the car and pulled into the street without a glance in her direction.
After a few minutes, she relaxed back against the seat. "You don't look so bad yourself.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“While the assembly line created some meaningful advances in society, it widened the gap between the haves and the have- nots by solidifying a tremendous barrier to entry for manufacturing businesses. Factories and assembly lines cost millions and millions of dollars to build, and those resources were only available to large organizations and wealthy industrialists. That made it nearly impossible to disrupt or innovate without being associated with one of these entities.

The assembly line also marked a tipping point for standardization and globalization. Prior to its arrival there was a strong emotional connection between the artisan and the product. The maker was close to the consumer, and that meant something to both of them. Standardized production over the twentieth century eroded that connection by separating the producer from the product. Producers no longer had to be skilled—they now only had to handle a piece of the process. That, with very few exceptions, systematically eliminated specialized artisan work. And the more efficient production became, the more financially beneficial it was to consolidate on the retail side as well, which led to what most call globalization, but I call global monotony. We entered the “Boring Age,” one in which different cities and countries all featured the same stores and products.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

“The Boeing 737 Max is the Ford Pinto of aviation.”
― Steven Magee

“Everything in this world is a plot. Even the concept of weekend holidays was created by Ford so that people would have more time to drive cars, resulting in higher sales. Deception disguised as freedom.”
― Swaraj Bhatia, Our Days :A Survival Odyssey

“I regard Tesla Autopilot as the new Ford Pinto.”
― Steven Magee

“The Boeing 737 Max is turning into the Ford Pinto of modern commercial aviation.”
― Steven Magee