An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never lie to you.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.