Angling Intellectuals Mugs

'What do you mean fishing is the thinking person's sport? How smart are fish?'

"...You talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here... You talking to me?!" "Narcissus De Niro"

"Lori, go ahead and toss in 'Lolita.' Now, what's next?" "We'll need more lighter fluid." "'The Lottery' is devils work." "We must protect the children." "Book burning club"

Miss America IQ Pageant

Paul Ree

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

The intellectual.

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

"Caption contest"

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

'Between you and me Wizard, is it true that you intellectuals have pointed heads?'

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

Lost and Profound.

'Making staff get a sick note after one day is essential if we're to make the whole system work more efficiently!'

"You're terrific, Katia. You think like 'The New York Review of Books' and look like 'Vogue.'"

"Care for an oxymoron?"

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

'My thanks go first to the Nobel Committee for this great honor, and to my son who encouraged me to keep my mind agile with word games, and puzzles.'

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

Toni Morrison

Philosophers On Strike

Soren Kierkegaard

Thomas Carlyle

'This is getting to be too much for me. I'm thinking of becoming a middlebrow.'

Man at door of Think Tank sees signs Closed Now a Thought Tank.

"The only way to create a sensation as an essayist these days is to write something mean bout cats."

John von Neumann, after completing his book. 'Theory of Self-Replicating Automata'.