A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell Category: Scholars, Scholarship
Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge Category: Scholars, Scholarship
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius Category: Scholars, Scholarship
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if Id been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldnt have been a comic. – Dudley Moore Category: strength
