She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.
In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body
