Jasper Fforde Quotes

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

Jasper Fforde

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• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Me

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • City
  • Start
  • New York

• I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

  

  Iman
  • Been
  • Muse
  • Mr

• So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Play
  • Video Games

• Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Best

• I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Evil

• When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God
  • Teacher

• I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Important
  • Sad

• If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Soul
  • Dark

• Cader de la padella ne le brage.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

  

  David F. Houston

• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth

• I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Time
  • World
  • Home

• I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Kids

• There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Black

• One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I could be a comedian like Red Skelton - that's what I watched on TV - then maybe I would have friends. I just remember that if I told stories to my friends, they listened. And in my family, with nine people talking at the same time, it's really hard to get people to listen to you. We were all craving attention.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Remember
  • Dream

• When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Heart

• The savages don't have atom bombs.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

• The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Mob

• There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

  

  Jasper Fforde