Jasper Fforde Quotes

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.

Jasper Fforde

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Study
  • Rich

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Together
  • Understanding
  • Sit

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Business
  • Calm
  • Too Late

• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Speak
  • Try
  • Just

• If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.

  

  Foster Friess
  • War
  • Look
  • Old

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Tact

• I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Done
  • Book

• Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

  

  John Strachan
  • Men
  • May
  • Band

• The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.

  

  Alan J. Heeger
  • True

• The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Writing
  • True
  • Memories

• True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • True
  • Evil
  • Purest Good