"He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked……" — Jasper Fforde
"He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford"
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde has 159 quotes on this site.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
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Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a…
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to…
— Ed Balls
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That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that…
— Alton Brown
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I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in…
— Alton Brown
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I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.
— Steve Carell
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
— Tori Amos
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The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he…
— Sun Tzu
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I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.
— Kobe Bryant
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and…
— George Wald
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If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the…
— Rumi
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
— Norman Mailer
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this…
— Adam Sedgwick
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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as…
— Sybille Bedford
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