Intellectual Athletes Gifts

Football team discussions.

'I really crammed last night.'

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?”

"...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

"So, what are you reading?"

"Now that was post-modern sex."

"Have you been working out?"

Assertiveness

"You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can't handle the infinite explanation of cosmological arguments relating to the truth!"

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?'

Bee Chess

Baseball players and their qualifications.

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

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

Lost and Profound.

The Masters.

Jacques Lacan

"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?"

'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.'

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

George Santayana

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

Toni Morrison

"Care for an oxymoron?"

Philosophers On Strike