The Brain Quotes

Economics is a form of brain damage.

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

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.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Brains are not everything.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

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.

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

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.

The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

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

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.

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

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.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

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.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

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