Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tove Jansson

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

William Golding

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Wilfrid Sheed

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

Thomas B. Macaulay

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

Victor Garber

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

Victor Hugo

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Sallust

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Rumi

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Roy Hattersley

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

Susan Griffin

In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

Story Musgrave

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Storm Jameson

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

Sting

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

Steve Jobs

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

Stephen Sondheim

He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.

Philip Green

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Peter Thiel

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Pierre Trudeau

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Pythagoras

Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

Pitbull

My whole thing is I don't take from Castro being an intelligent man as long as he is doing the thing that needs to be done. But the thing is at the end of the day you're not bettering the island. You're only making it worse. So, for me it's just making sure that people have the right to speak their minds and have an opportunity in life to better their life.

Terence McKenna

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Terence McKenna

We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

Terence McKenna

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

Randall Jarrell

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Sela Ward

I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.

Scott M. Gimple

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

Seth Shostak

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.