Age Quote by Jasper Fforde Download Open image “The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.” — Jasper Fforde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Planets
The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we… — Gianni Agnelli Copy Share Image
“It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or another, China… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found… — Jack London Copy Share Image
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ...… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
