Jasper Fforde Quotes

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Jasper Fforde

• Nostalgia
• Wondered
• Used To Be

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• Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Years
  • Rich
  • Last

• I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.

  

  Sam Smith
  • God
  • Believe

• I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • High
  • Like
  • Sad

• I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Home
  • Shopping
  • Holiday

• I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, 'Momma, I'm going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.'

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Different

• I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Time
  • Sex

• I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

  

  Alice Waters
  • School
  • America
  • Free

• I used to enjoy the spotlight. If I had a day off from filming, I didn't know what to do. Now I enjoy my family time so much, there is this sense of, if it all went away, and I was just a mom, I would love my life.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

  

  Jared Harris

• I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Men
  • Free
  • Color

• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• Worry is negative goal setting.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Worry
  • Goal
  • Negative

• What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Hand
  • Library

• I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Expertise
  • Contradict

• I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Work
  • Course

• I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Curious
  • Wondered
  • King Of The Jungle

• I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for Sylvester Stallone was bigger than the movie Creed, but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director Ryan Coogler is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.

  

  Bun B
  • Nostalgia
  • Gap
  • Sylvester Stallone

• Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Nostalgia
  • Wondered
  • Used To Be