Intellectual Enthusiast Pillows

Opinion Formers

A thinker seeing his own thought.

'Ok, so you work in a think tank and you get lightheaded. What else?'

"Actually, I hope more people think being smart is annoying. I'll have less competition when I apply to college."

"There she is...Melinda Alvarez...the smartest girl in the third grade."

John Banville

'Here's MY information highway!'

"Could you go back to the front desk? The receptionist has some forms for you to fill out."

Scarcity

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

'I'm just not sure how much more I can teach you.'

"How do you say ‘Where is the bathroom’ in Sanskrit?"

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

'Don't be embarrassed ? when I first attained Nirvana, I wet my pants, too.'

'That's your third bowl of gruel this week! What is this -- a feeding frenzy?'

'Carl Jung loses it...' 'don't tell me I made a Freudian slip - it's a Jungian slip!'

"Caption contest"

"I seek enlightenment - and a way to outsource our company's tech support."

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

Max Weber

'Oh, I'm okay, I guess - I just thought enlightenment would be more FUN than this.'

'It's the boss! Everyone look mellow!'

'Miss, I think I've learnt all I can too.'

OM, SWEET OM

X-RAY

Galileo describes his discoveries to the church (and gets hit over the head by the bishop/pope with the telescope that he made the discoveries with).

"Stop! Information overload. I need to rebuffer."

'That book is still floating around the system.'

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

Truth

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

'Oh wise one - what is the secret to long life?'

I am one with stupid.

'See what happens when meditation isn't supervised?'