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 particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Woman
  • Balance
  • Sorrows

• Even if you have insurance, you should apply by Jan. 5 if your home or business suffered damage from Hurricane Wilma.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Insurance
  • Suffered
  • Apply

• I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Heart
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• My arms and chest were always the hardest for me. I obsessed over my arms for 32 years! I did everything to bring them up: for 2 years, I did mini arm workouts every night before bed!

  

  Rich Piana
  • Night
  • Everything
  • Obsessed

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

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Obsessed
  • Suffered
  • Grades