Brain Quotes

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

I am a movement chauvinist.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.