T.A. Cline Quotes

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.

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.

It sure gives me faith and a wonderful feeling to know how many fans and friends are wanting me well again.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

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.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

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.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

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."

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

A river of words flowed between us.

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.

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.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

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.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

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.

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

Lights, " I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.

Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't realize it makes them slaves. It's sick.

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.

Archomai is where believing is being.

Truth stands out little in a field of truths. However, it is a ravaging lion, in a field of lies.

Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?

Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot!

When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.

How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.