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
  • Age
  • Father
  • 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

• My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Father
  • Child
  • Encouragement

• 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

• A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

  

  Otis Rush
  • World
  • Guy
  • You

• 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

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Money
  • Single

• My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Good
  • Family
  • Together

• I used to take girls out on a date to Night Court. And I'll tell you, most girls, they got a kick out of going to Night Court. 'Cause you get a lot of laughs... and it's cheap.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Night

• The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Work
  • Creativity
  • Born

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

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Like
  • Marriage
  • Opera