Quotes Tagged With :nerdiness

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun....

Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never....

If you know, you are smart then never try to negotiate your intelligence for the inept.

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced....

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know....

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation....

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better,....

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence....

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe....