Jasper Fforde Quotes

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

Jasper Fforde

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• As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Influence
  • Skin
  • Disappointed

• I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Man
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Guilty

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Career
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Teenager
  • Rebellious

• Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Three

• There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Spiritual
  • Information

• I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Together
  • Best

• I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Fear

• I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • World
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gentleman
  • Pursuit
  • Unspeakable

• The director Denis Villeneuve is actually an actor he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor and he's also a screenwriter he wrote What Lies Beneath. It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

  

  Bun B
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Sons of Anarchy

• Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'

  

  Billy Wilder
  • People
  • Personal
  • Billy Wilder

• exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Election
  • States
  • Instrument

• When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Thinking
  • Land
  • Dresses

• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • War
  • Earth

• Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Determination