The Brain Quotes

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

I'll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is being - the synapses are lighting up when I do that.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner, or you're with the trolls.

I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.

I got tiger blood, man. My brain fires in a way that is - I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

I don't do intoxicants on tour too often. It slows me down mentally, and it feels like killing brain cells.

Reality TV's pretty tricky for me. I don't really watch anything like that, because I think it's brain-sucking.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

Stories are flight simulators for our brains.

Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

I like whatever's good. Metal, rock, new or old - I don't care, as long as it does something to my brain.

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

What this movie needs is more brain eating zombies.

No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.