I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
Night terrors are in deep sleep, and they're more common in kids, as are nightmares, but what happens in a night terror… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function,… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
“brain creates a whole, unique universe. It contains everything we know. Everything we see or touch. Everything we feel and remember. In… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
“When our body decides to get into the action before our brain consents, we must ask who calls the shots. Are we… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
The disease I have is quite a rare cancer, and it is located in a limited area - a very widespread area,… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world,… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
“Idols of the injury, dug in behind the least understood motor plan information. The vile abomination temporal lobes and The four loathsome… — Bill Ectric Copy Share Image
Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate to have a hilarious, fun, brilliant family that I love spending time with that keeps me in a healthy head… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away… — Ma-Roo Copy Share Image
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“I once read that if the folds in the cerebral cortex were smoothed out it would cover a card table. That seemed… — Jay Ingram Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
