Ernest Cline Quotes

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

Ernest Cline

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• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Age
  • Me
  • Dad

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Logic

• There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Want
  • Science
  • Project

• Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Different
  • Home
  • Stealing

• I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Gossip
  • Nashville
  • ABC

• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Read
  • Sight
  • Seen

• When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Food

• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• 'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Horse

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

  

  Rick Perry
  • World
  • Abortion
  • Pens

• We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get worn out and go somewhere else in the house. And if you played reggae all the time, people ended up leaning against the walls and nodding their head. But if you mixed it up, the floor got more and more packed, and the energy from the two types of music seemed to feed into each other, and the adrenaline from the punk, and the seductive sway of the reggae seemed to fit together.

  

  Dave Wakeling
  • People
  • House
  • Wall

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Reality
  • Aging

• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Research
  • Girls
  • Defend