Brain Quotes

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Economics is a form of brain damage.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.