"I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that"

-- Portia de Rossi

#Smart Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.”
“The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.”
“I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
“When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?”
“Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.”
“I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I am thinking about nothing. I am thinking about nothing. Yes, it's possible to think about nothing. It doesn't always have to be about you.”
“There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.”

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