Jasper Fforde Quotes

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

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• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Father
  • Age
  • Religion

• 'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Past
  • Myself

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Possible
  • Prove
  • Recovery

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

  

  Mae West
  • Discover
  • Only
  • Curves

• When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Personality
  • Find

• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Day

• There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Sunshine

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Win

• Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.

  

  Daniel Gordis
  • People
  • Being
  • Suggest

• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Barefoot

• I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question
  • Wondered
  • Priest

• Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Like
  • Marriage
  • Opera