Quotes about Adventure
You had to be careful whenever you entered a new zone or sector. You had to be prepared. But like I said, I didn't have that problem. I was stuck at school.
- Ernest Cline
Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
- Ernest Cline
I aimed my rocket eighty-eight right into the torrent of enemy fighters and fanned the trigger on my flight stick to fire off a rapid volley of plasma bolts.
- Ernest Cline
because I knew there was a good chance it was going to end up getting me killed. But at this point, I no longer cared.
- Ernest Cline
Getting outside is highly overrated.
- Ernest Cline
GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42—8675309.
- Ernest Cline
Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I
- Ernest Cline
I noticed that Halliday had added an old eight-track tape player to the cockpit control panel. There was also a rack of eight-track tapes mounted over my right shoulder. I grabbed one and slapped it into the deck. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC began to blast out of the robot's internal and external speakers, so loud it made my chair vibrate.
- Ernest Cline
We are coming here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and we have no more bubblegum!
- Ernest Cline
She grinned. "Don't you want to build a huge interstellar spaceship, load it full of videogames, junk food, and comfy couches, and then get the hell out of here?" "I'm up for that, too," I said. "if it means I get to spend the rest of my life with you.
- Ernest Cline
Continue your quest by taking the test Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
- Ernest Cline
There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.
- Ernest Hemingway