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

• Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

  

  John Milton
  • Truth
  • Remote
  • Apostate

• Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. Royalty exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Royalty
  • Historians
  • Plebeians

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

  

  James Beattie
  • Song
  • Hamlet

• He wants to be the best and he wants to prove that he deserves to be where I am, so why not call me out? But I’ll fuck him up if we fight though.

  

  Adrien Broner
  • Fight
  • Wants
  • Deserves

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

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Hamlet
  • Rotten
  • Denmark