Tom Ford quote: "If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative."

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is...
TOM FORD

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
TOM FORD

When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or m...
TOM FORD

I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can...
TOM FORD

The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your ...
TOM FORD

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the...
TOM FORD

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
TOM FORD

I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I car...
TOM FORD

Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit ...
TOM FORD

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often...
TOM FORD

We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off...
TOM FORD

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that la...
TOM FORD

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice...
TOM FORD

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish...
TOM FORD

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big citi...
TOM FORD

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. B...
TOM FORD

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and ...
TOM FORD

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them a...
TOM FORD

I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I pre...
TOM FORD

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dis...
TOM FORD

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I do...
TOM FORD

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something...
TOM FORD

Just look at the Paris Hilton phenomenon and the way every other teenager looks like a prostitute.
TOM FORD

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
TOM FORD

You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usual...
TOM FORD

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blu...
TOM FORD

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a...
TOM FORD

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel ...
TOM FORD

I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
TOM FORD

I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in Lond...
TOM FORD

My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surpris...
TOM FORD

We're still trading on that whole flash thing, and for me the Paris Hilton thing is almost an evolut...
TOM FORD

I hadn't shopped online. I don't think I was a contemporary person any longer - I hadn't been in a g...
TOM FORD

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.
TOM FORD

I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am...
TOM FORD

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do...
TOM FORD

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer ...
TOM FORD

If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Mo...
TOM FORD

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don'...
TOM FORD

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to ...
TOM FORD

I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I'm go...
TOM FORD

She did want to do it, and then when she was on the set I think she felt uncomfortable, and I didn't...
TOM FORD

For the next few years I'll spend half the year in London and half the year in LA and Santa Fe.
TOM FORD

The U.S. used to be seen as the land where you could find freedom, and create a new life for yoursel...
TOM FORD

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on be...
TOM FORD

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fas...
TOM FORD

America was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.
TOM FORD

It's a half-hour drive from the gate to the house. Sometimes I go out there for days and I just don'...
TOM FORD

I worry about, consider, and question everything that I'm doing.
TOM FORD

Fun isn't a word I think about so much.
TOM FORD

But I don't think I would have the stomach for the maneuvering that is necessary in politics.
TOM FORD

Michael Moore's film has done a wonderful bit of PR for us all over the world.
TOM FORD

We can do the rest of the interview naked.
TOM FORD

I'm a very serious person.
TOM FORD

I could not send an e-mail because I had three assistants, so I never had to learn,
TOM FORD

You've stolen more of a man's property because it's land he owns but can't use. We robbed people of ...
TOM FORD

It shows the character of our team. In hard times like this, how you respond reveals the character o...
TOM FORD

It's really (about) putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.
TOM FORD

Then, it will be my own brand,
TOM FORD

Gucci for me is finished, over and gone, ... That was another chapter in my life, it's over. I am on...
TOM FORD

It's almost a peasant-skirt shape, however the way we're showing it, there's nothing peasant about i...
TOM FORD

She's tough, she's confident. It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because ...
TOM FORD

No long skirts. Not for day, not for evening, which is a big change.
TOM FORD

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
TOM FORD

The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, ... There are very few accessories that, if you wer...
TOM FORD

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us i...
TOM FORD

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, th...
TOM FORD

It totally changes your walk. It's a different kind of sexy when you have on a lower heel, and I sta...
TOM FORD

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.
TOM FORD

Over the last twenty or thirty years, which in the scheme of things is fast, we've become comfortabl...
TOM FORD

I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much...
TOM FORD

It's a neutral that goes with everything, ... and the caramels range really from real caramel all th...
TOM FORD

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stu...
TOM FORD

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.
TOM FORD

We're showing so much green, ... Everything from emerald green to puce, to chartreuse, to a real sor...
TOM FORD

There are a lot of wonderful people in Texas, people who have a social, political, and environmental...
TOM FORD

A shoulder pad on T-shirts, in sweaters, in shirts, in jackets, in everything. It's not a huge overw...
TOM FORD

We have a stronger shoulder. We have a really fitted waist. We have a very accentuated chest, ... Th...
TOM FORD

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
TOM FORD

If you live in a small town, or a place where everyone is more or less the same, it's easy to dislik...
TOM FORD

Even though the silhouette's curvy, there is some movement to the fabric,
TOM FORD

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
TOM FORD

A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it'...
TOM FORD

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess ...
TOM FORD

I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is...
TOM FORD

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
TOM FORD

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate....
TOM FORD

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not...
TOM FORD

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.
TOM FORD

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
TOM FORD

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the b...
TOM FORD

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I...
TOM FORD

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
TOM FORD

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADOX FORD

Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I...
FORD MADOX FORD

I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi...
FORD MADOX FORD

Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in exist...
FORD MADOX FORD

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned t...
FORD MADOX FORD

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...
FORD MADOX FORD

Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM

During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
HARRISON FORD

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victim...
DEBBIE FORD

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I started to dance and kind of entertained the crowd when I wasn't on the job, and the people seemed...
AL FORD

I've been dancing all my life. I even won a contest at the Apollo Theatre in 1968.
AL FORD

They've been putting it in for four years. They all are special girls who respect the program ..I'm ...
AL FORD

They're in my league, I've seen them for four years, and they're special kids. You don't wake up one...
AL FORD

I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we...
AL FORD

She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t...
AL FORD

It?s amazing. I knew she could shoot the ball. Sometimes I think it?s a confidence level for her and...
AL FORD

We played hard. We gave it our best shot. We were hoping to come in here and steal one like (Eastern...
AL FORD

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel t...
DEBBIE FORD

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
FORD FRICK

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
FORD FRICK

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
FORD FRICK

Keep your eye on the ball.
FORD FRICK

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
FORD FRICK

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
FORD FRICK

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as we...
FORD FRICK

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
FORD FRICK

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
FORD FRICK

I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need t...
DEBBIE FORD

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD

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

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

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD

Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.
JOHN FORD

Diamonds cut diamonds.
JOHN FORD

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own bu...
HENRY FORD

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when yo...
DEBBIE FORD

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADDOX

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from ...
GLENN FORD

I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,...
HARRISON FORD

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think...
HARRISON FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
LEIGHTON FORD

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough...
HENRY FORD

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire...
HENRY FORD

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes i...
JAMIE FORD

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
COREY FORD

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the bettermen...
HENRY FORD

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
HENRY FORD

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
HENRY FORD

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
HENRY FORD

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, inte...
HENRY FORD

Never complain. Never explain.
HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
HENRY FORD

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
HARRISON FORD

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

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, t...
HENRY FORD

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

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching arou...
HENRY FORD

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

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

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

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

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
HENRY FORD

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to th...
HENRY FORD

If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

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If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

Tom Ford

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