Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
Susan Sarandon

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Robertson Davies

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
Talcott Parsons

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
Jeremy Rifkin

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
Carroll O'Connor

I like intellectual journeys.
Christopher Meloni

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
J. M. Coetzee

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Christopher Lasch

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
Jacqueline Bisset

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
Melinda Gates

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange