Jasper Fforde Quotes

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

Jasper Fforde

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• I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Childhood

• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Watching

• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Care
  • Environmental

• I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Want

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Financial
  • Decisions

• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Book
  • Period
  • Write

• I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Music
  • New
  • Update

• That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Career
  • Know

• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • End
  • Reach
  • Rope

• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  

  Omar Epps
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Instincts

• One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.

  

  Big Boi
  • Horse

• Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Day
  • End
  • Wine