Ernest Cline Quotes
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Ernest Cline Famous Quotes & Sayings
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all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A
Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?
Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I
1977 - Star Wars is released on 5/25/77. Highest grossing movie in history. First wave of brainwashing in prep for invaders arrival?
Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.
Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades.
I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the 'A-Team' van or something.
One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn't hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.
Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.
Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.
Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.
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.
For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.
Mr. S was finally retiring this year, which was a good thing, because he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century.
WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.
I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle.
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
You don't need to sell me on anything, Wade," she said. "You're my best friend. My favorite person." With
no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact.
He often referred to Rush's three members - Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee - as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North.
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
Ernest Cline lives in Austin, Texas, where he devotes a large portion of his time to geeking out. This is his first novel.
Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.
The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series.
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.
Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.
I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest
Lights, I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education.
Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS.
This realization allowed me to calm myself enough to heed the whispered advice of Master Yoda now on repeat in my head: Let go of your anger.
I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?
Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school.
These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: READY PLAYER ONE
And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.
I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.
Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.
I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I'd obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.