Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing… — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don't follow the nuances of government like I do, because they're too… — John Kennedy 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
I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've fought a maths teacher, one of my sparring partners has a degree in biochemistry; there's a lot of brain in the… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield Copy Share Image
I feel like with a movie you know your whole journey, and even though little minutiae might change, you're able to get… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie. — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone. — Prodigy Copy Share Image
You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes… — Niki Lauda Copy Share Image
The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer. — Tabetha S. Boyajian Copy Share Image
The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers… — Chris Hardwick 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
