Overintellectual Quotes & Sayings

If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough. — Mallory Jansen

The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking. — Robert Kennedy

Looking back on that time it seems to me that such rapture over Tarkovsky by an audience most of whom would not have known how to spell his name, and who would under normal circumstances have ignored or even disliked his work, arose from our intense sensory deprivation. We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a public place for the first time in years without fear or anger, being in a place with a crowd of strangers that was not a demonstration, a protest rally, a breadline or a public execution. — Azar Nafisi

We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a public place for the first time in years without fear or anger, being in a place with a crowd of strangers that was not a demonstration, a protest rally, a breadline or a public execution...For a brief time we experienced collectively the kind of awful beauty that can only be grasped at through extreme anguish and expressed through art. — Azar Nafisi

Little moments nostalgia
does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with. — Fiona Maazel

I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist. — Nicole Holofcener

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I thought love was - big and loud and sudden, like a thunderbolt. I didn't know it was deep and quiet and grew upon a woman slowly, until one day she realizes it's the very breath and smiles and tears of her life. — Dianne K. Salerni

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. — Heinrich Heine

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be. — Peg Bracken

Casey was the better team and the better team won. — Bill Evans

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know. — Groucho Marx

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. — Khalil Gibran

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. — Clifford Geertz

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life. — John Feldmann

You are reading this book for two reasons. First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better programmer. Good. We need better programmers. — Robert C. Martin