John M. Ford Quotes

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

I'm not lost, they just moved my street.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

I have a horrible sense of direction. I could get lost a mile away from my house.

I get lost a lot.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

There are no signposts in the sea.

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

I have a horrible sense of direction.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.