Jasper Fforde Quotes

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

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• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• Never explain, never complain.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • Explain
  • Complain

• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • America
  • Parents
  • Doing

• I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Man

• Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Power

• If you follow a strict diet for a few months, flaunting six packs abs is no big deal.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

• Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

  

  Bodhidharma

• DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

  

  Adrian Belew
  • Live

• I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces!

  

  Caroline Winberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

  

  Bram Cohen
  • School
  • Age
  • Father

• Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

  

  Jodhi May
  • Believe

• The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • World
  • Water
  • Air

• When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Boy
  • Boys

• We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the Burmese dictatorship. Friends don't let friends enable dictatorship.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Friends
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • People
  • Ignorant
  • Ignorant People

• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Age
  • Superiority
  • Aristocracy

• My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Wife
  • Car

• Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Attack
  • Threatened
  • Mimes