Dorkier Quotes & Sayings

I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else. — Dave Barry

Thomas didn't have to think. He reached out and took the cup, poured the liquid in his mouth, swallowed all of it at once. It burned like fire, searing his throat and chest as it went down; he broke into a lurching, wracking cough. — James Dashner

Lately, I've been playing very fashion-forward, popular girls, which is great because it's led me to things like this Nintendo 3DS 'Style Savvy' campaign. It'd be fun to do something a bit dorkier - or quirkier! — Sarah Hyland

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course. — Ayya Khema

You could probably use stitches on that one." Addressing both tigers, I scolded softly, "You two will probably get an infection and your tails will fall off. — Colleen Houck

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist. — Sara Blakely

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind. — Greg MacGillivray

We've got the whole team together! They're pudgier and dorkier than expected, but I'm cool with it. Let's go blow some shit up. — Pittacus Lore

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers. — Pat Mitchell

Everything seems so possible when I look up at the sky and see the universe gleaming before me. — Rebecca Donovan

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought. — Charles Sanders Peirce

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! — Sharon Olds

When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage. — Rumi

They're nice, I said, taking in this new version of him. And they were - he now seemed a little more approachable, a little dorkier, and a lot less perfect. — Anonymous

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Donald Saari uses a combination of stories and questions to challenge students to think critically about calculus. "When I finish this process," he explained, "I want the students to feel like they have invented calculus and that only some accident of birth kept them from beating Newton to the punch." In essence, he provokes them into inventing ways to find the area under the curve, breaking the process into the smallest concepts (not steps) and raising the questions that will Socratically pull them through the most difficult moments. Unlike so many in his discipline, he does not simply perform calculus in front of the students; rather, he raises the questions that will help them reason through the process, to see the nature of the questions and to think about how to answer them. "I want my students to construct their own understanding," he explains, "so they can tell a story about how to solve the problem. — Ken Bain

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. — David Fincher

It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from hunger. — Joan Aiken

She was also wearing vampire bunny slippers. Myrnin had given them each a pair for Christmas, since they'd all found his so hilarious, and as Eve marched toward Claire, the rabbit slippers' mouths flapped up and down, their red tongues flashing and plush teeth biting the ground. — Rachel Caine