Thursday Next Quotes

#1. The circumstances of confusion will be your path to enlightenment' - Thursday Next

Jasper Fforde

#2. Monday; a cross between Wednesday this week and Thursday next week." - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#3. There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

#4. Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Jasper Fforde

#5. Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

Cher

#6. I hate surprises, boss. The last surprise I got, somebody died.
Yeah, well. the last surprise I got, I went to prison.

Kameron Hurley

#7. As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give me any of your shit - I'm a librarian.

Jasper Fforde

#8. I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

Richard MacDonald

#9. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

George Washington

#10. Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Jasper Fforde

#11. My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

Chris Hadfield

#12. I was alone, for twenty-five years. And I didn't give a shit, because I didn't know what I was missing.
Then, this stubborn, beautiful fucking brunette came barreling into my life and shoved her way through all the shadows.

Julie Johnson

#13. I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

Wolf Blitzer

#14. Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought
and more reading.

Jasper Fforde

#15. Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Denis Leary

#16. It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

Samuel Adams

#17. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens ... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

Bob Bergen

#19. The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Jasper Fforde

#20. He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

Jasper Fforde

#21. Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.

Noel Fielding

#22. We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#23. Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

Jasper Fforde

#24. It wasn't going to be hard ... it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to.

Jasper Fforde

#25. I don't know about you, but I've got plans for next Thursday. And I'm not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.

Deborah Blake