Top 100 Quotes About A Nerd
#2. A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Douglas Adams
#3. Did you just say 'nerd'?"
"Not a 'nerd' - node."
"Oh.
Raymond Benson
#4. I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
Lev Grossman
#5. If there was any show I could guest star on, I would want to guest star on 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' because I am such a nerd and I love that show. If there was ever an opportunity to be on that, I would snatch it up.
Atticus Shaffer
#6. Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!
Laura Osnes
#7. I hadn't been a nerd, mind you. I'd just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.
Lloyd Blankfein
#9. I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.
Rich Sommer
#10. I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.
Josh Groban
#12. I'm a nerd. I'm a little guy ... the last guy you'd expect in a romantic movie.
Chris Rock
#13. I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
Mindy Kaling
#14. I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.
Alfonso Cuaron
#15. Technical in the social situation, sociable in the technical situation? That's the hallmark of a nerd.
Charlie Brooker
#16. 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
#17. I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things ...
Mehcad Brooks
#18. I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
Bella Heathcote
#19. Nick smiled. "I kind of like the irony."
"Jesus, you are such a nerd." Gabriel flung the lighter at him.
"Stop using big words."
"Five letters is a big word?
Brigid Kemmerer
#20. 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
#21. I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
Aisha Tyler
#22. And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be a nerd among other nerds - without being reminded that you're the nerd.
Rainbow Rowell
#23. I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.
Justin Lee
#24. I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
Bjork
#25. No, I'm not a nerd. The only thing I nerd out about is psychology magazines.
Amber Nash
#26. Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
Moby
#27. Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.
Sarah Vowell
#28. I'm not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.
Gillian Flynn
#29. Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books
Dick Van Dyke
#30. I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.
John Amaechi
#31. I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.
Tom Lenk
#32. I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.
Lisa Kudrow
#33. I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon
#34. I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.
Virat Kohli
#35. Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference to the Roman people's reported liking for bread and circuses - for instant gratification that would distract them from the harsher realities of life.
Leah Wilson
#36. Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.
Dhani Jones
#37. The most fun thing about doing the show is that, as a nerd, the fun has been in learning and having it be like a grad school for me, every day. Every moment is a new experience. Every conversation is a new gain.
Steven Yeun
#38. At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
Dan Stevens
#39. Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.
Joss Whedon
#40. She's a nerd on the streets and a freak in the sheets. "I
Karina Halle
#41. you to stay, you said no, so now you go. Capiche?" "You're such a nerd." He stood and crossed to the door. Before he left, he turned back to her. "April. This day has been hell. I'm happy you were around to make it better.
Mallory Crowe
#42. To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
Rainbow Rowell
#43. 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
#44. Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
Taye Diggs
#45. Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
Sarah Vowell
#46. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
Chris Hardwick
#47. I was still a nerd in some ways, but I'd be that nerd on my own terms. Not to please anyone else. Not to be anyone else.
Bijou Hunter
#48. I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.
Chris Hardwick
#49. My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.
Rob Lowe
#50. It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.
J.J. Abrams
#52. Those are Klingon and Federation ships," I said. "You're a nerd, Shelton, but, holy crap, do I love this.
John Corwin
#54. If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.
Junot Diaz
#56. I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
Malin Akerman
#57. I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit - I just didn't care. I'm not like the cool girls - I'm the other girl. The one that's basically a nerd, but proud of that.
Lele Pons
#58. I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.
AnnaLynne McCord
#59. I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.
Adam Rapp
#60. Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.
Simon Helberg
#61. Before you say, "Wow, this chick is on a nerd plane of existence I can't relate to"
Felicia Day
#62. The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.
Jeff Hobbs
#63. If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.
It is easier than you think.
David Foster Wallace
#64. I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.
Andie MacDowell
#65. There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.
Johnny Galecki
#66. Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.
Channing Tatum
#67. I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.
Jeremiah Brent
#68. You know all your Norse mythology and chess references make you a nerd, right? Deep down under all that muscle, ink, and leather, you're a huge nerd.
Susan Fanetti
#69. Being a nerd is not about what you love, it's about how you love it.
Wil Wheaton
#70. I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'
Brooke Shields
#71. No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#72. I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.
Brittany Howard
#73. I've always been a square, a nerd. Kind of odd, kind of awkward. I still am to this day. People just think I'm a lot cooler 'cause I play football.
Richard Sherman
#74. I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
Charles Kuralt
#75. I'm not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movies. I like to live my life.
Virat Kohli
#76. I wasn't a nerd, mind you, but I'd spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I'd had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.
Brandon Sanderson
#77. People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you ... it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.
Robert Englund
#78. I think if you thought about it a little while longer, you'd realize that you'd far better be a Ghostbuster: a nerd in New York with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on your back, and a one-in-four chance of being Bill Murray.
Caitlin Moran
#80. His jabber had a glottal, chanted quality, seemingly designed to guide you past the territory where you might wish to tell him to shut up already or even to strike him, into a realm of baffled wonderment as you considered the white noise of a nerd's id in full song.
Jonathan Lethem
#81. I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.
Daniel Keys Moran
#82. I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#83. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?
John Green
#84. The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.
Chris Hardwick
#85. I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd ... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
Zachary Levi
#86. Theo McLean, fact examiner. If I were harsh, I'd say he was a nerd, but it's not cool to put someone down with labels. But man, he was a nerd. He was smart too. Straight-A smart. Except for gym.
D.J. MacHale
#87. So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!
Mandy Hale
#88. Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
Josh Keaton
#89. You? Favorite thing to do?" "Um ... read, I guess. I'm a nerd." "I like to read too, that doesn't make you a nerd. Unless you're calling me one.
Shelly Crane
#90. That's it, said Cavuto. You're too much of a nerd to be gay. I'm contacting the committee. They'll revoke your rainbow flag and you will not be permitted anywhere near the parade.
Christopher Moore
#91. Peter's not cocky. Peter's a nerd, ' Drew says.
'I know! Where does he get off being nerdy and full of himself? It's like he lives in some kind of alterna-world where nerds are cool.'
'He does,' Drew says smiling wide. 'It's called arts school.
Rachel M. Wilson
#92. Margareth is a bad influence for her."
"We all love Margareth. Don't be too hard on her."
"It's a nerd school, Papa. Engineering school.
Rea Lidde
#93. I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
Douglas Adams
#94. I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.
Robert Glasper
#95. I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds ... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.
Grant Show
#96. Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
Oren Peli
#97. Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.
Lev Grossman
#98. There's always a side of me that goes, 'I'm just a nerd.' I never look at myself and say, 'I'm beautiful.' Like anyone else, I see the flaws. Guys don't do that as much as women. But you have to learn to appreciate and accept and love yourself as you are.
Heather Graham
#99. I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.
Mindy Kaling
#100. If they aren't hating on you, then you're not doing anything right. If women aren't jealous of you, talking about you and cutting you down, then you're a nerd, and I would never want to be that.
Heidi Montag
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