Quotes About Intellectual Snobs

#1. But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

Sydney J. Harris

#2. The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance.

James F. Clapp III

#3. Apparently you don't have to understand physics to protest.

John Scalzi

#4. All men would still really like to own a train set.

Rita Rudner

#5. Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

Tom Wolfe

#6. If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Huxley

#7. First of all, I don't see America having problems.

George W. Bush

#8. I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

Diane Di Prima

#9. Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#11. That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

Nick Hornby

#12. Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

A.C. Newman

#14. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.

Anne Rampling