Intellectual Athlete Gifts

"Ready for our next upper body exercise? Let's continue with the brain."

"Have you been working out?"

"So, what are you reading?"

'I really crammed last night.'

'I don't see why I have to pick it up. I'm not responsible for the law of gravity.'

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

"....But then I find myself saying, what if there isn't more to life than this?"

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

Paul Ree

Miss America IQ Pageant

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

National Academy of Sport

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Football team discussions.

Assertiveness

Prawn Amend

The Giamatti era

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

'Interview Dr. Witt for your esteemed journal? Of course, as soon as his play period is over.'

Hold for one more page, then roll over into the bended elbow, resting chin pose. Book yoga.

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

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

Teacher boxing book: 'As I told you, today we're gonna really hit the books!'

Shakespeare Ave

Baseball players and their qualifications.

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

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

Professor Ernie's history of philosophy. Rene Descartes had a difficult childhood. I think, therefore I am! I know you are, but what am I?!

Lost and Profound.

Jacques Lacan

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

"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?"

George Santayana

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

Toni Morrison