Richard Ford Quotes

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.

Each one is different; each season is different.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

There is one radical distinction between different minds … that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the difference of things, others to mark their resemblances.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

Being different gives the world color.

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.

Everything about me was different.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

The band is built on fire and venom, as is the energy that goes into racing - but it is a completely different discipline. They are very similar in a lot of ways but poles apart in others.

I like things that are over the top and subtle at the same time.