The Brain Quotes

The brain is closer to the skull.

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Whats up, Seaweed Brain?

My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.

Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

People say that the largest sexual organ is the brain, and I think the fact that they definitely amuse each other is probably the strongest glue in that relationship.

The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

I've said, I think since the second one [part of Twilight Saga ], that it's going to take 10 years to really settle in my brain, and I'm four years into it.

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.

My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

I always look forward to seeing a man who has more brains than me.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.