Top 100 Quotes About Nerd
#1. Maya, having recently made her way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy, names it Bag End. "Because it looks as if a hobbit might live here." A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.
Gabrielle Zevin
#2. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.
Rebecca McNutt
#3. One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
Neal Stephenson
#4. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
Jenna Fischer
#6. I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
Andy Daly
#7. Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room
John Green
#8. I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
Taran Killam
#9. Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.
Ali Harper
#10. I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.
John Gallagher Jr.
#11. What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.
Steven Yeun
#12. A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
Bjork
#13. I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
John C. Reilly
#14. I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
Ricky Schroder
#15. As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
Jim Gaffigan
#16. I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
Hunter Hayes
#17. Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.
Bill Gates
#18. It's Nerd World," Peabody said. "Or Geek Galaxy. I can't decide which because it's full of nerds and geeks." "It's Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy.
J.D. Robb
#19. If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
Donald Glover
#20. You called the guy you're supposed to rescue a nerd, and you just referenced Star Trek. You don't find that a bit nerdy?
A.J. Wiliams
#21. You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
Adam Mansbach
#23. The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
Natalie Merchant
#24. I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
Joel Courtney
#26. The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.
Gary Gulman
#27. So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!
Fabian
#28. But hey, it's only a story, with no solid evidence, the kind of shit only a nerd could love.
Junot Diaz
#29. I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.
Beth Broderick
#31. I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
Shakira
#32. Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd.
Diablo Cody
#33. I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
Kaley Cuoco
#35. There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
Analeigh Tipton
#36. As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'
Nicholas Brendon
#37. I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
Brian McKnight
#39. I've always been such a nerd.
Grimes
#41. 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
#42. He was like a caring, hulking, nerd. And I wanted him.
Karina Halle
#45. When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.
Chris Hardwick
#46. I like to read them and write them, I say shyly. Hello, my name is Sparrow and I am a nerd.
Willow Aster
#47. I didn't choose the Nerd Life. The Nerd Life chose me. Awkwardly and without making eye contact.
John Scalzi
#49. Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."
Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"
"I bet you'll tell me."
" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "
You're a riot.
Brandon Mull
#50. I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.
Brian Posehn
#51. Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.
Pittacus Lore
#52. I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.
Shahzia Sikander
#53. Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.
Alan Sitomer
#54. An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.
Steve Martin
#56. Behind me, I heard my apprentice growl, All your base are belong to us, Niko.
Kevin Hearne
#57. I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.
Robert Lane Greene
#58. That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
Amy Adams
#59. I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
Sia Furler
#60. The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
Randall Munroe
#61. Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
Chris Hardwick
#62. The last thing you want to do is turn into a nerd like your father, nose always buried in a book, living like a tramp just to get one of those useless PhD thingies. And look where his posh Cambridge education got him - a flipping poet, for chrissakes!
Tabitha Suzuma
#63. On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking.
John Green
#64. To live in this world "Real World", you should be FUCKING nerd.
Deyth Banger
#65. Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
Justin Kirk
#66. 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
#67. When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.
Robyn
#68. A young lady by the age of seventy was walking up the road..
Simon Pegg
#69. 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
#70. It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.
Simon Pegg
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd.
Heidi Cullinan
#75. The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.
Homer
#76. Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.
Devendra Banhart
#77. I'm a huge reader ... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
Jodie Sweetin
#78. I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.
Aziz Ansari
#79. The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
Gabriel Mann
#80. I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
Megan Fox
#81. I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.
Julia Jones
#82. 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
#83. I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
Anthony Bourdain
#84. Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.
Bill Gates
#85. I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
Penelope Mitchell
#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. I get double credits. First I get the satisfaction credit of being hit on by the sexy DOT inspector, and second I get loyal and true credit for turning him down because I have my personal sexy nerd.
J.D. Robb
#89. In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#90. Let's see.' She fiddles with her terminal and the room card reader. 'You're in 403 and 404. Have a nice day.'
I hand Persephone the Forbidden Room card and keep Room Not Found for myself. She looks at me oddly.
Charles Stross
#91. 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
#92. You mean she's motivated by coffee and nerd gear and judges people solely on whether or not they're an asshole?" Elizabeth grinned. "Exactly.
Alanea Alder
#93. 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
#94. I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
Vinod Khosla
#95. 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
#96. You just got your nerd credentials back.
Bill Maher
#97. There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I really didn't like that movie, but I want to work with that director because he loves actors."
Anton Yelchin
#98. You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?
Triple H
#99. I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.
Daniel Keys Moran
#100. I was petrified of making a mistake - head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.
Mark Barrowcliffe
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