Quotes About Ford

Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find his will beginning to weaken. He didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyper-space ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.

It's very simple," said Ford, "my client, Mr. Dent, says that he will stop lying here in the mud on the sole condition that you come and take over from him.

All right," said Ford, "just stop panicking!

Six pints of bitter.' said Ford Prefect to the barman of the Horse and Groom. 'And quickly please, the world's about to end.

Where on Betelgeuse is that robot? Asked Ford. Perhaps he's behind one of these doors, said Arthur in his best 'I'll offer a solution but someone else can follow it up type voice.

Ford kicked at the door. It opened. "Mixture of pleasure and pain," he muttered. "Always does the trick.

Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he.

Ford had another Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the drink which has been described as the alcoholic equivalent of a mugging – expensive and bad for the head.

The cheery quality of Ford's voice was beginning to grate on the barman's ears. It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more somber passages of a war requiem.

Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler

Milliways!" said Ford. "Yes, sir," said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, "this is Milliways—the Restaurant at the End of the Universe." "End of what?" said Arthur.

I'll do the jokes,' snarled Ford. 'No,' said Harl. 'You will do the restaurant column.' ... 'You what?' said Ford. 'No. Me Harl. You Prefect. You do restaurant column. Me editor. Me sit here tell you you do restaurant column. You get?

said Ford, "you've got three pints to get through." "Three pints?" said Arthur. "At lunchtime?" The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him.

Ford', he said, 'how many escape capsules are there?' 'None,' said Ford. Zaphod gibbered. 'Did you count them?' he yelled. 'Twice,' said Ford

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.

he breathed like an old Ford with a leaky head gasket.

Nature doesn't rhyme her children,' I said, happy to remember the line of Emerson's

Standing behind them in the shadowy lobby I was

bobby pins in it. On the wall

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.