"Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can……" — Jasper Fforde

"Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted."

— Jasper Fforde

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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.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. — Sean Astin
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and… — Arnold Bennett
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took… — Wade Boggs
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else… — Edward de Bono
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you… — Elizabeth Bowen
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and… — Danny Boyle

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