The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
“Your brain needs space to think, not more tasks demanding attention.” — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain. — Paul Daniels Copy Share Image
The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it. — Stephen Gostkowski Copy Share Image
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that?… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I feel like my timeline has moved so many times in my brain. I used to be like, 'Maybe like 30' because… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
The majority of my life is 'Guardians,' but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that… — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
“Something about the structure of my brain, its associative, porous, open-endedness, was defenseless against the ever-enlarging Web. Every video, news story, photo,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“Aggressive airplane passengers probably have a bad case of Altitude Sickness. Many people are hypoxic at airplane cruising altitude. They would be… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think,… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax.… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord. — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Keep an open mind, but as they say, not so open your brain falls out.” — Melissa Tiers Copy Share Image
One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing? — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain. — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image