John Green Quotes

I'm a geek, man.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

The most interesting nerds are the ones who take offense to being called nerds.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

I'm a hard-core geek.

I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway.

I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.

Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.

This idea of the geek or the nerd, all that person really is - and I would consider myself one - is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.

One thing I've realized is that being a nerd has transformed. I like that it's easier to read comic books and, like, 'Lord of the Rings' now. You don't have to get punched in the chest in the gym locker room for that anymore.

I actually am a computer nerd.

I'm a black nerd - a blerd!

I did this show for Sky called 'King of the Nerds', which was a reality show looking for the world's biggest nerd, essentially, celebrating the geek, which is also what I'm about.

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.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.