Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheryl Sandberg

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

Tallulah Bankhead

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Sy Montgomery

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.

Tony Blair

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

Tony Blair

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.

Robert A. Heinlein

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

Robert A. Heinlein

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

Thomas Szasz

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Tim Daly

What attracted me to it, beyond it being really intelligent, was that it was sadly something that would be unique on television. Anchoring this political show is this vital, dynamic, complex, thriving marriage. These people are passionately and fiercely committed to making it work out.

Tanith Lee

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Tadao Ando

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

Sylvia Pankhurst

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

Rumi

It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

Toni Cade Bambara

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Thomas Carlyle

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Steven Johnson

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

Stephen Hawking

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen King

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

Stephen Hawking

Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

Stephen Hawking

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

Stanley Baldwin

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Stanley Crouch

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Shahrukh Khan

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

Shakti Gawain

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Sun Tzu

There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is.

Sun Tzu

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

Ricky Williams

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

T. S. Eliot

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Susan Sontag

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

Susan Sontag

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.