Intellectual Mercenary Admirer Pillows

"...and a final word of thanks to those hard-working scholars who never sleep: the term-paper ghostwriters."

'OK, so I fumbled. Now can you cure it or not?'

Hildegard von Bingen

Mensa Does Improv

'A message from the Vikings, sire. It says, 'we've got spirit! Yes, we do! We've got spirit! How about you!?'

The wine-shop

"It appears to be a giant boil, sire."

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 1) - Putto Figure in Lower Part of Image Altered for Publication

'He'll stop being so smug when he gets his first dent.'

Robert Schumann

'What a day! Caught between a Wiki leak and a document dump.'

'Here comes Mr. 'Smarter-then-you'.'

Charles Baudelaire

"They called me Dumbo. A memoir of redemption."

Leonardo's first drawing

"Of course, a dog's bowl is a good source of food, and yes, the dog will bark at you but it can't stop you from stealing the food..."

J. M. W. Turner

Candle Moment

'Wow - My kind of man.'

With the aid of an abacus, Elizabeth Barrett Browning counts the ways.

"The problem is: reasonable men may differ on what the hell reason is!"

'Sure, it's a lot of work being a double agent, but you get TWO retirement plans!'

"A fire-breathing dragon represents the conflict you have with the Lord of the Manor."

"He's such a gentleman, he didn't use a 'mating call' to attract me: he's developed a 'please join me on a date' call..."

E=mc2 on mountaintop.

"No one is denying that you're smart. For that to happen someone would have to say you're smart."

Knights jousting on pinatas

Einstein's most embarrassing moment

'Wow. It's about time a guy noticed me for my brain!'

Wilhelm Dilthey

"I didn't it, I read it, so guess who just graduated cum laude from Dinsdale High?"

"Remember the marine biologist? Now, that was brain food."

He's a strange kid -- he has a William F. Buckley Pez dispenser.

Ulysses S. Grant