Badass Bookworm/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Introduction: "Ah, you timed your arrival well. I've just finished reading a book, you see. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Lucian. I am a user of the Psychic type. I must say, you've already proven yourself to be outstanding by coming this far. They say I am the toughest of the Elite Four. I'm afraid I will have to go all out against you to live up to that reputation."

After being defeated: "I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking."
Can your goverment employees do this?
—The Ninja Warrior announcer, as government worker Bunpei Shiratori climbs a narrow ledge by his fingertips
[Yensid] has a Ph.D in killing you!
I graduated MIT! My diploma is worth more than your life!
Let's face it, not everyone is cut out to be me. I'm a physics-crunching badass. I'm the complete package.

Gordon Freeman saved my life!
Fight for freedom with a brain storm
Gordon Freeman saved my life!
Like Chuck Norris in a geek form.


Completely silent, a violent creature
Despite looking like a geography teacher


We discern across the centuries a commanding and versatile intelligence, wielding with equal force the sword of war and of justice; using in defence arms and policy; cherishing religion, learning, and art in the midst of adversity and danger; welding together a nation, and seeking always across the feuds and hatreds of the age a peace which would smile upon the land.
—Description of Alfred the Great, History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill.