Geek Quotes - Page 12

• I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

  Kurt Fuller

  Actors, Fraternity, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

  Dave Barry

  Light, Three, Paper

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• Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Real, Heart

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• I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stars, Rocks, Nerd

  "‘Dr. Doom’ economist Nouriel Roubini forced to remove giant hot tub" by Emily Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Damnation, Pay

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.14, Zebra Books

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• The band geek has liquor?

  Jennifer Estep

  Band, Liquor

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.268, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Anime, Trying

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• When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

  Alan Perlis

  Funny Inspirational, Giving, Needs

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• I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

  Liv Tyler

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

  "Fictional character: Arwen". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• It was like a frat house for film geeks, the Pad O' Guys. That's what being at UCLA afforded me. So when one of us had some success - in this case, my pal Fred Dekker - he would reach down the ladder and help me up a rung, give my work to his agent to pass around to see if anyone liked it.

  Shane Black

  Giving, House, Guy

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• I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way.

  Dee Bradley Baker

  Xbox, Dad, Believe

  "Voice of Geek: an interview with Dee Bradley Baker". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Long, Childhood, Remember

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• Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

  Ann Brashares

  Dying, World, Matter

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.200, Delacorte Press

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• I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

  LeVar Burton

  Flags

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

  Sylvia Day

  Technology, Smartphones, I Can

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• Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

  Anthony Daniels

  Grease, Books And Movies, Philosopher

  "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

  Erin Gray

  Thinking, Media, Roots

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

  Jennifer Garner

  Thinking, Looks, Tragic

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• I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

  Johnny Galecki

  Sports, Growing Up, Night

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• I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

  David Benioff

  Growing Up, Games, Dungeons

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• Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Party, Book, Nerd

  "My Journey Through The Games" by Jacqueline Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.

  Don McLean

  Kings, Land, Clothes

  Song: Fashion Victim, Album: Starry Starry Night

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• I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

  Paul Feig

  Girl, Thinking, Views

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• A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

  China Mieville

  Dark, Would Be, Stereotype

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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