Intelligent Quotes - Page 40

• She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Thinking, Passionate, Poet

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• I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Hard, Thomas Raith

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.190, Penguin

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• You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Sorry, People

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• The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

  George Lucas

  Doe, Jinn, Speak

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

  P. D. James

  Stars, Credit, Immensity

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.14, Vintage

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• Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Men, Stupid Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3148, Delphi Classics

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• What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Hands, Wizards

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• Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me

  Emilie Autumn

  Girl, Angel, Thinking

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• I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.

  Elton John

  Jesus, Gay, Men

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• Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

  Walter Moers

  Reading, Thinking, Way

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• Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame

  Allen Ginsberg

  Jumping, Space, Soul

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• Then you’re going to stay in that net until eternity comes to pass. (Sin) Well, that’s really intelligent, isn’t it? What are you going to do? Put drinks on me or just use me as a conversation piece whenever friends come over? And let’s not even think about what’s going to happen when I need to use the restroom, shall we? I hope you have a standing order at Sofa Express. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Order, Needs

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• In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of his male sneaks, but now..." She paused dramatically. "Now, we have the lovely, intelligent Yelena to get Valek's cold heart pumping." "You really should get out of your sewing room more. You need fresh air and a dose of reality," I said knowing better than to believe a word Dilana said, but unable to control the silly little grin on my face. Her sweet, melodious laughter followed me into the hallway. "You know I'm right, " she called.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Sweet, Laughter, Believe

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.169, Harlequin

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• Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

  Milan Kundera

  Littles, Novel, Great Novels

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• Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

  Sarah MacLean

  Men

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.269, Scholastic Inc.

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• RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.

  Mark Morford

  Eye, Voice, Feet

  "All kneel before the devil horns". www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Views, Laughing, Able

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.160, Collector's Library

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• Does this mean you made a decision? (Carlos) No, I took my clothes off and came in here to tell you I wasn’t going to make love with you. To use your words, ‘for someone so intelligent, you can be pretty dense.' (Gabrielle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Mean, Clothes

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• The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

  Sean Covey

  Years, Sound, Experts

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  Coco Chanel

  Stupid, Dumb, Sensitive

  "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, p. 95, 1971.

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• Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Noble, Faces

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Heart

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Handsome, Painting

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• That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Book, Fall, Thinking

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• Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Powerful, Hero, Levels

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.458, Dell

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