I am a comedian. My brain is critical - it's overthinking - but you can find ways to turn it down and… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“the brain is an astounding and mysterious organ...it has been analyzed and poked and sliced and diced yet nobody has ever seen… — Cameron Díaz Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly,… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
“The combination of the Main brain with its central nervous system, and the ancient Animal Brain with its somatic, enteric nervous system… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to… — Tim Green Copy Share Image
We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up… — Gretchen Reynolds Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, things that feel spontaneous have a much longer life than things that have got a lot… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis Copy Share Image
“Very high altitude workers were using medical oxygen to treat numerous health conditions that included fatigue, confusion, headaches, feeling faint and digestive… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow,… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image