Intellectual Phony Quotes

#1. Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

Nancy Pearcey

#2. What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.

Bill Willingham

#3. In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

Saib Tabrizi

#4. For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

Alex Berenson

#5. Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.

Hugh Lofting

#6. I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

Peter Jennings

#7. Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary of any boy at Whooton when I was there. They gave us a test.

J.D. Salinger

#8. In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Jorge Luis Borges