Nerd Quotes - Page 9

• I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Appreciate, Looks

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• Despite the fact that he no longer dressed like the big dork he did then, despite the fact that he’d swapped the nerd wear for some much cooler clothes, despite the fact that he’d let his hair go all shaggy and loose to the point where it curved down into his face in that cool guy, slightly windswept, effortless way, despite the fact that every time I looked into his brilliant blue eyes I was totally reminded of the Zac Efron poster that used to hang on my old bedroom wall, it still didn’t make it okay for him to laugh at me the way he did.

  Alyson Noel

  Wall, Eye, Hair

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• Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Paris

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• Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle's date with Simon. "I can't believe he took you to an actual restaurant." Jace was on his feet now, putting away the floor mats and training gear while Isabelle leaned against the wall and played with her new gloves. "I assumed his idea of a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends." "I," Clary pointed out, "am one of his nerd friends, thank you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Believe, Play

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• Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Hilarity, Sophisticated

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Holiday, Kyoto

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• Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.

  J. Lynn

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• Drunk nerds. Not my thing.” “You like nerds.” “Not nerds who join fraternities,” Cath said. “That’s a whole subclass of nerds that I’m not interested in.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Drunk, Fraternity, Said

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.323, St. Martin's Griffin

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• These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.' 'Hey bro, you need to go outside and get some fresh air into you. Or a girlfriend.' I need to get a girlfriend into me? I think that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension about how babies are made.

  John Green

  Mom, Baby, Girlfriend

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• I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

  Rachel Caine

  Cheerleader, Claire, Myrnin

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• Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

  P. C. Cast

  Growing Up, Mean, Sleep

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• Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot.

  Brandon Mull

  Hurt, Book, Reading

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Smart, School

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• My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Definitions, Aphorism, Asks

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.109, Random House

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• That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

  Amy Adams

  Hands, People, Bits

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• I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Play, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1321, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Decision, Important, Politics

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• The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

  Jeff Bezos

  Regret, Numbers, Decision

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Memories, Science, Technology

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• One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

  Neal Stephenson

  People, Scary, May

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Cryptonomicon”, p.646, Random House

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• Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. ("Yes, yes, YES!" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Law, Campaigns

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• A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

  Roseanne Barr

  Artist, Listening, Conformity

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• You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.

  Kat Von D

  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

  Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.

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• Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

  Edward Kennedy

  Inspirational, Political, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

  Chris Hardwick

  Smart, People, Rebel

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