Ernest Cline Quotes

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

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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 believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Energy

• 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

• Truly, my first love.

  

  Demi Moore

• Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Situation

• The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Long
  • Evil

• I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Working
  • Champion

• We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

  

  Anthony Crosland
  • Party
  • Expression
  • Views

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

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Evil
  • Sexy