Smart But Absent Minded Quotes

#1. Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Isabel Paterson

#2. We wish to work in total freedom.

Christo

#3. Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Greg Cox

#4. No work of art can compare to a city.

Woody Allen

#5. Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was that the scientists are "super smart". Unbelievable. Most of these absent-minded professors cannot find the toilet.

James Traficant

#6. Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well, come on down

Peter Gabriel

#7. I will respect you like you were my sister or my mother but inspire and love you like
you were a queen.

The Prolific Penman

#8. The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

#9. He's twenty-nine. And what did you think he was going to look like?"
She shrugged.
"You know-old. Grizzled. Long white beard. Scruffy robes. Loveable, smart, a little absent minded."
I bit back a grin.
" I said 'sorcerer,' not 'Dumbledore.' So he's hot. It could be worse.

Chloe Neill

#10. That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

Vandana Shiva

#11. In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

Ethel Merman

#12. Life is art's rival and vice versa.

Wyndham Lewis

#13. The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

Henri Matisse

#14. Don't say I'm lucky. Ever.

Faith Erin Hicks

#15. Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Michael Korda