Intellectual Athletes Mugs

Football team discussions.

'I really crammed last night.'

Miss America IQ Pageant

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

Paul Ree

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

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

National Academy of Sport

"Have you been working out?"

"So, what are you reading?"

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

Prawn Amend

The Giamatti era

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

'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

Bee Chess

'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!'

Baseball players and their qualifications.

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

Lost and Profound.

"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. . .'

"Care for an oxymoron?"

'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?"

'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.'

Toni Morrison

Philosophers On Strike

'You can never be too fit or too tenured.'