Nerd Quotes - Page 10

• I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

  Aisha Tyler

  Real, Geek

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• To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

  James Purefoy

  Stars, War, Men

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Real, School

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

  Alan Kay

  Our Society, Slides, Used

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• I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.

  Kiowa Gordon

  Littles, Comic

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• It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

  Allison Williams

  Laughing, Safe, Comedy

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• In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

  Mark Hamill

  Believe, Book, School

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• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Doe, Fool

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.

  Andre Benjamin

  Knowing, People, Needs

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• Everybody gets better looking on TV as shows go on.Even the nerds on "Big Bang Theory" are getting better looking. Their clothes are getting nicer. They're better groomed. It works for them.

  Nick Kroll

  Clothes, Get Better, Bangs

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Nuts, Medicine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Art, Team

  Source: collider.com

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• I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

  Mike Powell

  League, Nintendo, Tables

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• When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

  Bjork

  Girl, Math, Boys

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Rights

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

  Joe Manganiello

  Hard Core, Core, Hard

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

  Rands

  Indicators, Inefficiency, Asks

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• There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love. When you were a small, shy, awkward kid like me, and you saw and experienced some of the things I did and you can do nothing, you're going to gravitate to those comic books and fantasies where the nerd gets bit by a radioactive spider and can beat up the bad guys.

  Bao Phi

  Book, Kids, People

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• Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor.Harry Potter nerd.Whatever. Take the damn phone.

  Robin Benway

  Phones, Mentor, Potters

  Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.71, Penguin

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• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Character, Games

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I'm definitely a nerd. I'm a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd.

  Alicia Keys

  Ass

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• I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

  Jeremy Irvine

  War, Taken, Secret

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Technology, Thinking

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.

  Joss Whedon

  Passion, Moon, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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