Intellectu Quotes & Sayings

Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm not certain that's much of an incentive.
Dallas to Amy — Cindy Gerard

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going. — Billy Joe Saunders

I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism. — John Maus

Is God-like forgiveness humanly possible? Yes, if it remains God's work! Forgiveness is not something we can accomplish on our own or within our own power (no more than we make the kingdom of God happen in the world). It's not something we conjure up. If forgiveness flows out of us to others, it is because God is doing it and not us ourselves. — Ronnie McBrayer

I was sorry he had not a cat, or a young dog, or better still, an old dog. But all he had to offer in the way of dumb companions was a pink and grey parrot. He used to try and teach it to say, Nihil in intellectu, etc. These first three words the bird managed well enough, but the celebrated restriction was too much for it, all you heard was a series of squawks. — Samuel Beckett

I'm just as famous as my mentor ... but that's still the boss don't get sent for — Drake

Pity makes suffering contagious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. — Bertrand Russell

Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes. — Orhan Pamuk

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. — Donna Leon

For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours. — John Wesley

As you know, I'm all about victory for the underdog. — Stewart Rahr

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. — Alan Seeger

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. — Daniel Kahneman

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong, — Diem Brown