Intellect Quote by George Ade Download Open image “She was short on intellect, but long on shape.” — George Ade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intellect Intelligence Intelligent Long Shapes
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James Copy Share Image
She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short. — Clive James Copy Share Image
While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant. — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
“The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“She had streaked blonde hair, long and straight, parted in the middle framing high cheek bones, an aquiline nose and beautiful deep blue eyes.… — Nick Hahn Copy Share Image
She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive… — George Ade Copy Share Image
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. — George Ade Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily,… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit… — George Ade Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image