#intelligent

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#cool #defense #him #i #i think

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#funny #great #horror #horror film #intelligent

With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#constitution #countries #engaging #eu #ever

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. ↗

— Diogenes

#intelligent #man #most #silly

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#around #best #big #body #crude

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#design #how #intelligent #legislature #look

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#acting #anybody #bit #choice #class

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't. ↗

— Victor Garber

#before #demands #entertainment #happened #i

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being