Ernest Cline Quotes

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

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• If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Children
  • Money
  • Giving

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Yoga
  • Perfectionist

• I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Saying

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• The propagation problem is the problem of explaining by the structural properties of the swinging system what the character of the swings would be in case the system was started in some initial situation

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Character

• Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Trust
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Theologian

• The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Good
  • Country
  • Wish

• I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Charlie

• How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Party
  • Recovery

• My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, “You did it! You showed up! Let’s lie down.” We all lie down and she’s like, “How is everybody feeling?” We’re like, “Great!” And the teacher’s like, “Great!” Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • She
  • Feeling

• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Hollywood
  • Type
  • Producer

• I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don’t understand it.

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • Chance
  • Secret
  • Nothing

• For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Desire
  • Body
  • Secret

• When we started becoming friends with Prince, I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Friends
  • Drugs
  • Hated

• One person can keep a secret, but not two.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Secret