Brain Quotes · Page 74

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

— Rex Stout

Every girl wanna hold my chain when I f#%k their brains out on the Mustang

— Simon Rex

“In an electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) society, we all have a certain level of insanity.”

— Steven Magee

“The system prefers that our neurons solve differential equations rather than smell our neighbours.5”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my…

— Mary Steenburgen

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

— Anonymous

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

— Drew Barrymore

In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause…

— Sri Aurobindo

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.”

— Susan Maushart

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and…

— George Polya

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses…

— Albert Einstein

My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good…

— Maria Cornejo

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my…

— Johnny Depp

I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's…

— Elizabeth May

Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything…

— Alan Sparhawk

The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how…

— Robert Kenner

I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's…

— Linda Ronstadt

I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to…

— Christian Wiman

There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't…

— Halsey

“The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me…

— Rex Stout

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because…

— Leroy Chiao

That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your…

— Georges St-Pierre

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of…

— William Howard Taft

Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

— Mari Mancusi

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

— Terry Pratchett

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

— Germaine Greer

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want…

— David Beckham

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

— Farrah Fawcett

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

— Thomas Eakins

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

— Nellie L. McClung

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

— Ryan Mason

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

— Philippa Perry

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Salvatore Scibona

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

— Anthony Doerr

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

— William S. Burroughs

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

— Scott Lynch

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

— J.R. Ward