Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.
In Damascus: poems become diaphanous They’re neither sensual nor intellectual they are what echo says to echo . . .
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relati...
No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
