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

• 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

• Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • People
  • Live
  • America

• God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Dance

• In 1600, when Shakespeare's audience at the Globe heard 'Hamlet' for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Time
  • Wine
  • Hamlet

• Holmes is the hardest part I have ever played - harder than Hamlet or Macbeth. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

  

  Jeremy Brett
  • Dark
  • Moon
  • Hamlet

• It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Resistance
  • Beat
  • Teeth

• Some people would call me a workaholic. I don't consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it's my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!

  

  Andre Geim
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

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

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Hamlet
  • Rotten
  • Denmark