Rare Intellect Quotes

#1. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.

Bill Shankly

#3. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.

David Nicholls

#4. The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes

Kate Morton

#5. And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.

Michael Dobbs

#6. When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

Nancy Gibbs

#7. Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike

#8. When asked out, I am hesitant, my glance straying to the beeefy, 400-page mystery thriller lounging seductively on the nightstand next to my bed, with come hither eyes that promise an exciting evening of one climax after another. Never had a chance. Staying in Saturday night.

Ava Zavora