"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers." ― Janis Joplin Topic(s): Intelligence More From Janis Joplin "When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex. It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills." "If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time." "On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone." More In Intelligence "Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."― Joseph Story "A lot of the things that we’ve been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence."― Jane Harman "Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."― Emile M. Cioran