It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef,… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
I'm trying to do some things with my brain institute to understand more about the impact of concussion on brain tissue, because… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations,… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not,… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their… — Charlie Shrem Copy Share Image
High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy,… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time:… — Louis Cozolino Copy Share Image
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I think, you think critically all day, you've got a lot of decisions to make, so you've got to make sure that… — Zac Taylor Copy Share Image
I'll see somebody struggling with something, and it doesn't matter if it's ironing or mopping or traveling, my brain just starts to… — Joy Mangano Copy Share Image
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
