"We were developing a machine that used egg……" — Jasper Fforde
"We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired."
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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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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because…
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
— Victor Borge
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family,…
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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