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Very Intelligent Quotes

Good job," Alyx snapped. "You're very intelligent, Raye. You almost hit mom's car.
- Millicent Ashby

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
- Albert Camus

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.
- Tommy Bond

I never thought that I was very intelligent.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
- Marshall Mcluhan

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
- Sam Brownback

The demon coughed nervously. Demons do not breathe; however, every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned.
- Terry Pratchett

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.
- Terry Pratchett

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
- John Cusack

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
- William Feather

The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started. All right, I am a talker, a harmless, boring talker as we all are. But what can I do if the direct and sole purpose of every intelligent man is to talk, that is to say, to waste his time deliberately?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- George Orwell

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
- T S Eliot

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
- Brendan Fraser

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
- Victor Garber

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
- Paris Hilton

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
- Brenda Lee

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.
- C S Lewis

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
- Chris Martin

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
- Kate Mulgrew

I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.
- Annabella Sciorra

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
- Thomas Sowell

Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.
- William Strunk Jr

Joey was a very intelligent, friendly and outgoing boy, but he had a huge attitude problem and an absolutely big ego. He knew that the new school could be challenging for him, but he also knew that he would make friends easier than anyone else.(Maradonia and the Seven Bridges)
- Gloria Tesch

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
- Orson Welles

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
- Eli Wallach

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
- Alan Watts

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.
- Gene Ween

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.
- Edith Wharton

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
- Walter Jon Williams

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