Jasper Fforde Quotes

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or knowing.

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• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Marriage

• You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Myself
  • Language
  • Learn

• My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Character
  • Emotional

• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Character
  • Fear
  • Action

• On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Work
  • Priority

• Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

  

  U Thant
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Tolerance

• I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Art

• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Hope
  • Father

• I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Heart
  • Luck

• A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Long
  • Hate
  • Democracy

• I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Bomb
  • Phantoms
  • Affleck

• We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Night
  • Moments
  • Knowing

• Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or knowing.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Knowing
  • Thening