250 Quotes by Richard Ford

It's time to cost these out and see what it would take to make this happen.

slow, drawn-out affairs, taking an average of three years to play out.

The consumer has been out there spending pretty aggressively for some time. I think a reasonable case can be made that we will see growth through the end of the year. There may be some moderation, but the consumer doesn't shift gears on a dime.

I never will forget standing on top of the truck when Junior won that Texas Busch. (Earnhardt) had on his cowboy boots and jumped from the top to the bottom. He was so excited to see (Earnhardt Jr.) win. He was really, really proud of him. He'd be proud of him today.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

The highest proportion of consumers in two decades anticipate a falling unemployment rate in 2004.

The leaders of tomorrow are shaped by the teachers of today. I am honored to be giving the keynote speech for an organization that has 50 years of experience inspiring today's early education and care providers to be innovative, thoughtful and motivating.

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.