Jasper Fforde Quotes
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.Jasper Fforde
Quotes to Explore
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush -
Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
Vanessa Paradis -
I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
Ice Cube -
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
Ian McShane -
I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
Gay Talese
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Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I love Canada.
Randy Quaid -
My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
Mae Whitman -
Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
Floyd Skloot -
I love music; it's my passion.
Ja Rule -
I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Lady Gaga
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
Elle Fanning -
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah -
The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
Megan Smith -
I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
John Lithgow -
People think I'm a gambler. I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house.
Donald Trump
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This team's resilient, ... We don't quit. Guys in here have battled back from injuries, the pitching staff's a little bit banged up. Now, we're starting to come into our own.
Gary Sheffield -
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
Drew Carey -
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.
Blaise Pascal -
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
W. Daniel Hillis -
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
Jasper Fforde