Chris Pratt Quotes

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.

I enjoy intellectual companionship.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

It's not all about looks. If someone can sustain a good intellectual 'conversation, I find that very 'attractive.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

I have nothing intelligent to say.

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.

It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

Boredom has always been a problem.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. It’s been quite nice because I’ve learned a lot about my friends and family from what they’ve been giving me. A book says a lot about a person.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.