Ernest Cline Quotes

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

Ernest Cline

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• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Rest
  • Language

• I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Body

• No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Thought
  • Own
  • Contemporary

• I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • God
  • Book
  • Reading

• Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Next
  • Begin

• Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Always
  • Entrepreneur

• 'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Death
  • Me
  • Course

• There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • History

• What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Name
  • Recording

• I like Michael Buble.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Michael Buble

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Person
  • Changed

• America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Discovered
  • Hushed

• My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

  

  Max Roach
  • Mind
  • Names
  • Term

• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Relation
  • Civilized
  • Advanced

• I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Future
  • Events
  • Dread

• The contract for the rematch was signed prior to the first fight, they are both signed at the same time. There is no other contract

  

  Eddie Hearn
  • Time
  • Contract
  • Signed

• Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Know
  • Gold
  • Now

• Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Forgiveness
  • Painful

• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Country
  • War
  • Mean

• I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Obsessed
  • Suffered
  • Grades