Quotes About Enthusiasts

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

Once I made the mistake of saying I enjoyed listening to Lester Young over Charlie Parker, which solicited the response: "What the hell do you know?" It was true, I only knew what I liked, but in the often too-serious jazz scene, it seems what one likes isn't valid unless backed up by a twenty-page dissertation. That attitude probably accounts for a certain percentage of jazz enthusiasts who are pedantic bores.

I've crossed paths with fanatical fans all over the world.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

There's all these little bubbles of nerddom.

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.

Snapshots were handed round. The menace of coloured transparencies was in the offing. All the enthusiasts wanted to show their own pictures, but to get out of being forced to see other people's.

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.

My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

I don't want fans anymore, because the definition of a fan is a fanatic. The people who buy my product and ride with me are my supporters, not fanatics.

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

Shoddy explanations that yield correct predictions are two a penny, as UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy-theorists and pseudo-scientists of every variety should (but never do) bear in mind.

This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

Great designs may be started and the spirit of them inspired by enthusiasts, but cool heads are required to bring them into form.

I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers, and I was more lucky than I knew in having been brought up around enthusiasts, and lovers of enthusiasts.

The history of socialistic ventures, shows that ordinary men are seldom capable of pure ideal altruism for any considerable time together, and that the exceptions are to be found only when masterful fervour of a small band of religious enthusiasts makes material concerns to count for nothing in comparison with the higher faith.

Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

I'm amazed. I go to these conventions, and the fans that come, sometimes my line goes all day.

Our customers are quality maniacs.