Lit Nerds Quotes

#1. Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

#2. If one could amputate part of one's consciousness ...

Susan Sontag

#3. I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

Twiggy

#4. The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#5. You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.

Alexandra Adornetto

#6. I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Marc Newson

#7. He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

Janeane Garofalo

#8. I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

Jerry Dammers

#9. Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

Madame De Stael

#10. I waited a second. Should I?
No... but I will.

Jay Asher

#11. The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

Hilary Kornblith

#12. Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'

Mark Steel

#13. We can't tell an electorate ... when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

Ronen Sen

#14. Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Douglas Crockford