I'm kind of a goony guy, a dweeb or a geek.
There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great.
Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.
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.
It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.
I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.
I was not a queen bee, ever.
There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.
I'm a dork!
Usually, nerds on TV are completely stereotypical, like Urkel, or they're not really so nerdy.
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
I was a normal American nerd.
