The Brain Quotes

The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

Honestly, folks, I think my brain is broken.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

My brain's just full of passwords.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

You do get the pregnant mush-brain... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned.

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.

I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

Comedy doesn't have to be loud and obnoxious and beat you over the head. It can be this really small detail that, when it computes in your brain, you think, "That's great. That's masterful."

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.