Quotes About Intelligence

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'

I am averse to incompetency. I need mentally stimulating people and intelligent conversations.

Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don't get.

Modern audiences are so intelligent. They work at such a fast pace that if you don't give enough stimulus at a breakneck speed, they will become disinterested.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.