Sarah Vowell Quotes

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.

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. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.

I'm a geek to the bone.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

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.

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

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school.

I'm a luddite in comparison with some of the people I follow on Twitter, but a nerd in comparison with many people. But I was always a nerd in other terms - always a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, stuff like that.

Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

I am a board game enthusiast, a board game evangelist, a board game nerd, but I wouldn't say I'm 'keen' because I very rarely win, and 'keen' suggests you're actually good at something. But I do play a lot of them, and I have a pretty good-sized collection.

I think it was always okay to be a geek.

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses in high school. But I am a modern geek.

You can't play a hobbit if you're not prepared to be a part of nerd culture.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

Someone who I would describe as a 'geek' or 'nerd' is a person who loves something to its greatest extent and then looks for other people who love it the same way so they can celebrate loving it together.

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

I'm a geek. A techie geek.

My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

I'm just a big old nerd. I'm not that cool guy at all.

I was a bookish nerd.

I am a geek, and proud of it.

Some of my best friends now are from drama club.

Sadly, in the most nerdy way possible, my superpower is anagramming.