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.'

Miss America IQ Pageant

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

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

Paul Ree

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

"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

The Giamatti era

Prawn Amend

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

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

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

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

Baseball players and their qualifications.

Shakespeare Ave

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

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

Lost and Profound.

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

'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.'

'...Would you like me to try out my Big Bang theory?'

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

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

Toni Morrison

"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?"