Ernest Cline Quotes

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

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• Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Human

• If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Actors
  • Might
  • Concerned

• The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Block
  • Sight
  • Hue

• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Being
  • Loved
  • Sure

• Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Should
  • Decent

• Will somebody hold me?

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Hold Me

• You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Products
  • Fads

• I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.

  

  George Jung
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Car

• Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

  

  Dan Miller
  • Something
  • Happen
  • Conditions

• Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

  

  Eric Lander
  • Future
  • Scientists
  • DNA

• The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

  

  Strom Thurmond
  • Understanding
  • Consideration
  • White People

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Mind
  • Art
  • High

• They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • War
  • Principles
  • Warlike nation

• Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

  

  James Stewart
  • Eternity
  • Concerned
  • Believer

• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

  

  Ernest Cline
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  • Pop Culture
  • Conveys