Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Bruce Boxleitner

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

Will Self

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Terry Wogan

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

V. S. Naipaul

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

Vivienne Westwood

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Annie Proulx

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Tariq Ramadan

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

Caravan of Dreams

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Credo

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

Camilla Belle

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

B. R. Hayden

I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.

Damien Chazelle

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Jeffrey Deitch

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Robertson Davies

Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Carl Hiaasen

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.

Peter Cullen