Top 100 Quotes About Cline
#1. I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Ernest Cline
#2. Illuminati communicated with one another. "Why would a secret
Emma Cline
#3. Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
Ernest Cline
#4. Han will have that shield down,' " Aech quoted. " 'We've got to give him more time!'
Ernest Cline
#5. I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.
Ernest Cline
#6. WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.
Ernest Cline
#7. Humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet's dwindling natural resources.
Ernest Cline
#8. When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it.
Ernest Cline
#9. I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
Patsy Cline
#10. all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A
Ernest Cline
#11. Several paragraphs of dense text began to scroll across the screen, an unreadable blur of legalese outlining all the details of enlistment. It would have taken hours to read it all, and then I still probably wouldn't have understood a word of it.
Ernest Cline
#12. I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.
Ernest Cline
#13. I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
Ernest Cline
#14. She was flanked by a skinny redhead and an older girl, dressed with the same shabby afterthought. As if dredged from a lake.
Emma Cline
#15. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me ...
Ernest Cline
#16. It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS."
- Wade Owen Watts
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
#17. You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
Patsy Cline
#18. And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.
Ernest Cline
#19. Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.
Ernest Cline
#20. I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer's tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer.
Ernest Cline
#21. Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.
Ernest Cline
#22. Space - First coin-op arcade game - port of Spacewar!
Ernest Cline
#23. I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.
Patsy Cline
#24. I always thought it would have been fun to spend an evening with Patsy Cline - just because I think she was really fun and interesting. I think you'd have a really good time with her.
Martina Mcbride
#25. Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.
Ernest Cline
#26. When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
Kacey Musgraves
#27. Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold on to it like a blanket. They don't realize it keeps them slaves. It's sick" "What's funny is that as soon as you give everything away, as soon as you say, Here, take it - that's when you really have everything".
Emma Cline
#28. I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
Valerie June
#29. I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
Ernest Cline
#30. I don't want to get rich - just live good.
Patsy Cline
#31. My Shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All Stars. They bestow their wearer with both speed and flight.
Ernest Cline
#32. Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I'd managed to wreck both of my closest friendships.
Ernest Cline
#33. Time lost can never be recovered ... and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
Erik Larson
#34. Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
Ernest Cline
#35. Although kids are born with great courage to take control of their own lives and make decisions, they have little experience on which to base their decisions, so they often make poor choices. But they can learn from those mistakes, provided parents don't get too involved.
Foster W. Cline
#36. So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them. There
Emma Cline
#37. but I was past the point of caring, the night stoking a foolish, confused sense that I had somehow returned to the world after a period of absence, had taken up residence again in the realm of the living.
Emma Cline
#38. My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.
Ernest Cline
#39. You and the other Sux0rz can all go fuck a duck.
Ernest Cline
#40. He'd looked at us like we were butterflies he was pinning to a board.
Emma Cline
#41. I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.
Patsy Cline
#42. I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I
Ernest Cline
#43. You're evil, you know that?" I said.
She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
Ernest Cline
#44. She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.
Trisha Yearwood
#45. What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars - he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off - but on a global scale!
Ernest Cline
#46. I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.
Sarah McLachlan
#47. Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
Ernest Cline
#48. I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.
Patsy Cline
#49. Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say.
Ernest Cline
#50. the liquor aiding the shorthand of my loneliness. It was strange that I could feel differently so easily, that there was a sure way to soften the crud of my own sadness.
Emma Cline
#51. Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS.
Ernest Cline
#52. Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?
Ernest Cline
#53. I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."
Ernest Cline
#54. Since then, we'd used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.
Ernest Cline
#55. For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
Ernest Cline
#56. Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.
Emma Cline
#57. It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.
Edward Cline
#58. Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves
#59. If you can't do it with feeling, don't.
Patsy Cline
#60. Why would real aliens behave exactly like videogame simulations of themselves?
Ernest Cline
#62. They suggested E-meters, Gestalt, eating only high-mineral foods that had been planted during a full moon.
Emma Cline
#63. But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly.
Emma Cline
#65. I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!
Patsy Cline
#66. The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.
T.A. Cline
#68. These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols. Most items only cost a few credits, but since they cost nothing for GSS to manufacture, it was all profit.
Ernest Cline
#69. Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
Ernest Cline
#70. Not only was this the first time a girl had ever given me her card, it was also, by far, the coolest contact card I had ever seen. "This is, by far, the coolest contact card I have ever seen," I said. "Thank you!" I
Ernest Cline
#71. The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.
Ernest Cline
#72. You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake up with, and how could you ever tell yourself what you wanted was wrong?
Emma Cline
#73. Ernest Cline lives in Austin, Texas, where he devotes a large portion of his time to geeking out. This is his first novel.
Ernest Cline
#74. Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.
T.A. Cline
#75. My eyes were already habituated to the texture of decay, so I thought that I had passed back into the circle of light.
Emma Cline
#76. I don't wanna be rich, just live good.
Patsy Cline
#77. If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?
T.A. Cline
#78. I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.
Ernest Cline
#79. I don't wanna get rich - just live good.
Patsy Cline
#80. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
Ernest Cline
#83. AA 241:87 - I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.
Ernest Cline
#84. Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot. They just have to believe.
T.A. Cline
#85. The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants.
Ernest Cline
#86. We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
Ernest Cline
#87. It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably ... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!
Ernest Cline
#88. Julian smiled what I thought of as the smile of an only son, someone who believed he would always get what he wanted.
Emma Cline
#89. On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.
Patsy Cline
#90. How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling.
Emma Cline
#91. At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their breasts, imagining how they would look in very crude positions.
Emma Cline
#92. I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.
Margaret Cho
#93. In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.
Ernest Cline
#94. Now I feel bad," Diehl said. "Like we're about to nuke Aquaman. Or the Little Mermaid. ... "
"Pretend they're Gungans," Cruz suggested. "And that we get to nuke Jar Jar.
Ernest Cline
#95. In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Patsy Cline
#96. Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades.
Ernest Cline
#97. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.
Emma Cline
#98. There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.
Nina LaCour
#99. Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of value. And how they seemed to want you to collude on your own judgement.
Emma Cline
#100. The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you'd muted them, and they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Ernest Cline
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