Quotes About Ernest

Hello, fish," I whispered, reciting an old incantation. "Welcome to my barrel.

According to him, the firmware on our OIVs has not been altered in any way—it just isn't functioning properly now, due to the changes in Anorak's infirmware.

Halliday had to keep all of his D&D stuff over at Og's house. Because his own parents thought D&D was satanic and forbid him from playing it.

My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot.

I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again).

You're evil, you know that?" I said. She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

Three swift swords for the sisters three; The first shall be of ivory; The second sword's forged of rarest gold; The third shall be cut from a granite fold. The first sword's name is Just Old Man; And the second is called The Urgent Brand; While the third thirsty sword of that glamour'd three Is the hungry blade named Liberty. --Ernest Wheldrake, Border Ballads

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Bland as a Jesuit, sober as a hymn.

The Bishop was aghast, and my father chuckled. Yes, pig-ethics, Ernest went on remorselessly. That is the meaning of the capitalist system. And that is what your church is standing for, what you are preaching for every time you get up in the pulpit. Pig-ethics! There is no other name for it. Bishop

Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity, Ernest continued. You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class.

The Church does not protest against it," Ernest replied. "And in so far as the Church does not protest, it condones, for remember the Church is supported by the capitalist class.

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.