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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• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Children
  • Family
  • Stupid

• So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Identity

• I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Boy
  • Years

• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Filled
  • Purse

• I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Up
  • She
  • Deception

• We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • American
  • Band
  • Rock

• It is a sin to be poor.

  

  Charles Fillmore

• I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• 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
  • Black
  • Beginning
  • Army

• I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

  

  Matt Stone
  • Atheist

• I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Together

• Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

  

  Linda Ellerbee
  • Time

• 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
  • Value

• You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Say
  • Can
  • Stands

• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Christian

• I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Real
  • Protest
  • Native

• Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Important
  • Enough
  • Stress

• All of my life, in every season, You are still God. I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship. “Desert Song,” Hillsong...

  

  Brian Houston
  • Life
  • God
  • Worship

• Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Happy
  • Newspapers
  • Murdered

• What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Opposite
  • Deja vu
  • Avant Verrais