Brain Quotes · Page 68

One doesn't need a particular height or body to be a villain in movies. He needs the brain and the look.

— Ali

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

— Hannibal

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

— Carl Sagan

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

— Terry Pratchett

The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

— Daniel Mazia

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the…

— Roger Penrose

I didn't want to be just another guy who played football and lost all his money and didn't use his brain.

— Nicklas Bendtner

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the…

— Zadie Smith

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in…

— Alan Moore

“To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”

— Nicholas Carr

I never realized till now how hard the brain has to work to make the body do what it asks. Or maybe…

— Thalia Chaltas

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first…

— Fritz Zwicky

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,…

— Emma Donoghue

“The brain is... an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an…

— Anonymous

My brain gets about 10 things going on at once and the wires don't connect. They all go, 'It's the drugs,' and…

— Shaun Ryder

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart…

— Diana Gabaldon

You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is…

— Dale Archer

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging…

— Jennifer Egan

“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just…

— V.S. Ramachandran

The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass…

— John Medina

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want…

— James D. Watson

Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

— Adam Driver

You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.

— Warren Buffett

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

— Anonymous

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

— Donald O. Hebb

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

— Jonathan Cainer

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

— Oscar Wilde

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

— David Bellos

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

— Louis Kronenberger

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

— Anonymous

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

— Molly Harper

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

— Zach Condon

“Here is a startling fact: Your brain is designed to spend as little time thinking as possible.”

— Anonymous

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

— James Patterson

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

— Louis van Gaal

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

— Benjamin Franklin