"I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of……" — Jasper Fforde
"I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time."
—
Jasper Fforde
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde has 159 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
-
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
-
[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
-
People don't change just because you know more about them.
-
Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
-
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a…
-
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
-
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
-
We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
-
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
-
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
-
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
See all 159 quotes by Jasper Fforde »
More Charge Quotes
This quote is filed under Charge Quotes,
one of 1,040 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
— John James Audubon
-
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
-
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.…
— Robert Foster Bennett
-
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
— Robert Foster Bennett
-
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
-
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge…
— Jeff Bezos
-
One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with…
— Lewis Black
-
Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country,…
— John Boehner
-
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a…
— Elayne Boosler
-
I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own,…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-
Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be…
— Eli Broad
-
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
— Les Brown
See all 1,040 Charge Quotes »