The Brain Quotes

"Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?" "Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say. "I promise," he whispers.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.

Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Her head throbbed as though gremlins were ripping holes in her brain

'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

It's a drought in your brain.

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat can bring out secrets; it can change people's personalities.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.

When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.