An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.