The Brain Quotes

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.

This is your brain on magic.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

What I thought 41 would be at 26 is definitely not what I feel now. I still feel incredibly youthful on the inside, in my brain.

Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

Keep an open mind---but not so open your brain falls out.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.