Wilds Of The Intellect Quotes

#1. Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.

John Kennedy Toole

#2. I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

Scottie Pippen

#3. People comment today that we shouldn't focus on money so much but rather think of our fellow people who are less fortunate. So much baloney.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#4. Worry is a form of atheism. And so is most fear.

Arianna Huffington

#5. Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

Michel Faber

#6. Icy fingers walked down my spine, and I realized I was trembling. I wanted this to stop. Wanted Jas to stop before he made this whole situation a million times worse, but I couldn't speak.

Sofia Grey

#7. I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

Tom Clancy

#8. To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this love. For the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back, and never has it to be summoned twice to the nuptial feast.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#9. A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.

China Mieville

#10. Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved up some countries and created others. When some of the world we had made by force wanted something in return, we were outraged.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us.

Jon Oringer

#12. Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

Ashim Shanker