Jasper Fforde Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard -
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
Jack Kerouac -
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
Umberto Eco -
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Iain Banks
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon -
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
Lady Gregory -
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
Edgar Cayce -
It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
Katey Sagal
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I'm only a human being.
Wayne Rooney -
The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
Danger Mouse -
I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
Fat Joe -
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
Kate Voegele -
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
Lane Evans
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
Jane Austen -
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow -
The lords and ladies pass a rulingThat sons and girls go hand in landFrom good stock and the best breedingPaid for by the servile class.
Paul Weller Incognito -
You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
Eminem -
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde