The Brain Quotes

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.

Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

My brain surprises even me sometimes.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.

Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain.

I don't have a nine-to-five brain.

We all shared this experience. We all had one brain, we were one giant organism working and having joy. "What about Walken?" Sorry, bro...Maybe I should've done an hour and 34 minutes.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.