Nonintellectual Quotes

#1. I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Ariel Pink

#2. We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

Julia Child

#4. Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."
Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

Christopher Golden

#6. I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.

Roopal Patel

#7. You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up.

Ted Alexandro

#8. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

#9. The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Herbert Hoover

#10. The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

Laurie Anderson

#11. I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

Nicole Krauss

#12. ...love is never stationary.

Bob Goff