Nerdier Quotes

#1. I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

Chris Hardwick

#2. Parenting, when it is pursued seriously and thoughtfully, is not only life's most important career, but its most joyful and fulfilling career.

Linda Eyre

#3. Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Joan Crawford

#4. English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Maureen Johnson

#5. Genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn't tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity.

Erik Valeur

#6. If God does not exist, we will lose nothing by believing in him; but if God does exist, we will lose everything by not believing.

Anonymous

#7. Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.

Roxanne Snopek

#8. The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#9. There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Tim Bishop

#10. Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.

Thomas S. Monson

#11. We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

Kevin Ayers

#12. Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

Jim Rohn

#13. One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."

Dahlia Lithwick