Granted Quote by Jasper Fforde Download Open image “Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.” — Jasper Fforde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Granted Sometimes Taken Taken for granted Yardsticks
They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net. — Stephen Gostkowski Copy Share Image
Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted. — Christian McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change. — Steve Bruce Copy Share Image
It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we're about 30 points behind our points goal for… — Scott Moir Copy Share Image
I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards. — Devin McCourty Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that at the end of the day, the only stat that counts is points, The other ones are… — Kirk Ferentz 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
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted. — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
