Intelectual Quotes & Sayings

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. — Pope Benedict XVI

We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house. — Annie Dillard

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'. — Bob Dylan

It's not what you know, it's how you think. — Aaron B. Powell

She had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love. — Milan Kundera

Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC — Mark Gorman

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do. — Andy Warhol

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade

Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: Well, fuck. — Erin Morgenstern

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it. — Chuck Jones

Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us — Isobelle Carmody

The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world. — Joel Landau

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones. — Joan D. Vinge

Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space - digging into the heart's deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence. — Jai Uttal

The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public. And this role has an edge to it, and cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place ti is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. — Edward W. Said

Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart. — Hui-bin Jang

Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all. — Zack W. Van

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige. — Estelle