I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
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.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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'.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
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.