Ernest Cline Quotes

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

Ernest Cline

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Information
  • Given

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Dad

• When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Bible
  • Teach
  • Only

• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Old

• My patriotism is subservient to my religion. I cling to India like a child to its mother’s breast, because I feel that she gives me the spiritual nourishment I need. She has the environment that responds to my highest aspiration.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • She
  • Mother
  • Environment

• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.

  

  Karl Marx

• For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Drunk

• Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

  

  Alice Ripley

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • Country
  • Children

• I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Evil
  • Talking
  • Courses

• I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Evil
  • Sexy