Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Longoria

Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

Ernest Hemingway

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Ernest Hemingway

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Ernest Hemingway

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

Groucho Marx

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

Ian Bremmer

State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

Hugh Miller

The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm thus considerable in amount must be necessarily more than considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men.

Hugh Miller

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Hugh Downs

As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

Hosea Ballou

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

Guy de Maupassant

I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

George Bernard Shaw

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

George Bernard Shaw

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

Frederick William Faber

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

Christian Bale

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Chris Patten

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Fabio Capello

I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

George Sutherland

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

George Steiner

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

George Orwell

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

George Orwell

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

George Orwell

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

George Orwell

The more intelligent, the less sane

George Orwell

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

George R. R. Martin

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

George Carlin

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

Gail Porter

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

Francis Parker Yockey

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary