Jasper Fforde Quotes

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Jasper Fforde

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Come

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • You
  • Crazy

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Game
  • Alone
  • Thought

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Friends
  • White
  • Hip Hop

• We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • Like
  • Romantic

• The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Money
  • Law

• I want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming.

  

  Edward Enninful

• Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Children
  • Imagination
  • Helping

• I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

  

  Eminem
  • Miracle
  • Bee

• The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Imagination
  • Clothe
  • Individual Words