I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

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

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

No one wants to see curvy women.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.