I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr Copy Share Image
In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image