Ernest Cline Quotes

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

The face is the soul of the body.

I don't want to alter anything on my body.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

It's my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My nose bothered me for a long time. Now it's smaller and I'm happy. If I wanna put my tits on my back, they're mine!

In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, "You should always look good", but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

I have a voluptuous body. I am not one of those skinny girls. I like to enjoy life.

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

I'm a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood