Jasper Fforde Quotes
What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
Jasper Fforde
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We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.
Burgess Owens
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I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
Matt Stone
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I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
Christopher Nolan
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Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.
Linda Ellerbee
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In economic surveys of households, many variables have the following characteristics: The variable has a lower, or upper, limit and takes on the limiting value for a substantial number of respondents. For the remaining respondents, the variable takes on a For the remaining respondents, the variable takes on a wide range of values above, or below, the limit.
James Tobin
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You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
Patrick Ness
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If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.
Eugene Ormandy
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
Tom Lehrer
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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
Oswald Chambers
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What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
Jasper Fforde
