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Letter "I" » imbecile
«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
Author: Austin O'Malley
| About:
Crime,
Foolishness
| Keywords:
criminals, detect, detecting, detective, detects, imbecile, imbeciles, imprisoned
«To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.»
Author: Robert E Sherwood
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
gullible, imaginative, imbecile, imbeciles, naive, passionate, sensitive
«Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.»
Author: Sir John Simon
(Physician)
| Keywords:
blithering, catarrh, Dennis, imbecile, imbeciles, lobotomies, lobotomy, prefrontal, prefrontal lobotomy, sandy
«Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Animals,
Men
| Keywords:
animal, behaves, clever, imbecile, imbeciles
«An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.»
«Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
imbecile, imbeciles
«When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger»
«What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.»
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