Intellectualiser Quotes & Sayings

Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it. — Lev Grossman

This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure. — Cassandra Clare

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a "better land," without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world? — Henry David Thoreau

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there.
Here, he was Michael. — Mike Lupica

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. — George Papandreou

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts. — Paddy Considine

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity: ... — Adam Smith

His noble and oblivious and optimistic friend was slowly opening his eyes and seeing the world for what it was, and it was filthy, and violent, and profane, and unfair. Adam — Maggie Stiefvater

A lot of people can be afraid of the masking because people can misrepresent themselves [in the Internet] and they can pose as people they're not. Well, yeah; that's true. That's one side of it. But the other side of it is that it equalizes you and if you happen to be a person who is not equal in the eyes of the greater society that's a damn good thing. — Augusten Burroughs

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better. — Jonathan Frakes

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly. — George Orwell

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel. — Margaret Edson

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions. — Dick Cheney

Our house is our corner of the world. — Gaston Bachelard

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal. — Scottie Pippen