# Quote — Jeffrey Ford, Crackpot Palace

> The seventh expression was a blend of the look of a hungry child, the gaze of an angry ball, and the stern countenance of God. The report records that the creators were questioned as to how they came up with the countenance of God, and their famous response was, “We used a mirror.”

- Author: [Jeffrey Ford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford.md)
- Book: [Crackpot Palace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace.md)
- Page: 72
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford#Crackpot_Palace_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/the-seventh-expression

## More from this book

> I knew we were going somewhere I didn’t have any interest in going, because I was wearing a tie and jacket.

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/i-knew-we-were.md)

> “You two don’t know yet,” he said. “When you get old, you think more about the past than about what you did five minutes ago. Time changes.”

p. 289 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/you-two-dont.md)

> Time became a sermon, preaching itself.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/crackpot-palace/time-became-a-sermon.md)