Jasper Fforde Quotes

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

Jasper Fforde

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Great
  • New York
  • Down

• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
  • Light

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • World
  • Great
  • Believe

• I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Bad
  • Famous
  • Nasty

• I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • World
  • Wish

• Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Blue

• The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Money
  • Business
  • Happy

• At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

  

  Byron Allen
  • Up
  • American
  • Free

• 'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Value

• I prefer tailored clothes. I always have. But I find that whatever I wear, people see it as charged with symbolic meaning.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • People

• Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • May
  • Death
  • Feeling

• We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Empowering

• In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Great
  • Words

• While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

  

  Allen West
  • Country
  • Service
  • Planning

• The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

  

  Gaylord Perry
  • Baseball

• I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Career

• At drama school, I got a job choreographing and teaching the fights for Mark Rylance doing 'Hamlet' at the Globe in London when I was only 19. They made me fight captain.

  

  Kieran Bew
  • School
  • Job
  • Drama

• If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • People
  • Hamlet

• I know many Europeans and I think many of them don't even believe me when I say that people in US don't have vacations. Obviously a lot of people do but there are many, tens of millions of people that don't and there's certainly no guarantee of a vacation. So paid time off is very valuable where people know they could get four or five weeks vacation, which is absolutely standard in Europe. Denmark has 6 weeks. So I think that's something that's very valuable, giving people time off.

  

  Dean Baker
  • Guarantee
  • Obviously
  • Europeans

• I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally in their stride, and this thing happens, where you can tell they got everything they wanted. And it starts to look a little relaxed. No criticism to the shows whatsoever; these people are geniuses.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Criticism

• There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Hamlet
  • Rotten
  • Denmark