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

• 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

• 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

• We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Lost
  • River
  • Stock

• Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

  

  James Carville
  • Done

• I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant surgery, which is really scary. But I'm all for, if something's bothering you, fix it. At least talk to somebody to see what it would take to fix it, and see if that's for you or not.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Scary

• 'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Dream
  • City

• There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Right
  • Activities

• I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Dangerous
  • Don't Care

• I'd still love to work with John Romita Sr. at some point. That's the dream.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Work
  • Dream

• 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