Brain Quotes

Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

Your brain is like a sleeping giant.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.