Intelligent Quotes
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There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
Stephen Fry
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
David Bowie
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.
Christopher Cokinos
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I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
Nirmala Srivastava
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It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
Terence McKenna