Brain Quotes · Page 106

“a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”

— Anonymous

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

— John Keats

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

— Mitch Albom

“The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.”

— Jill Telford

“the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.”

— David DiSalvo

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

— John Lydon

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

— Fritz Lang

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of…

— Richard Matheson

Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even…

— Matthew Walker

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of…

— Arthur Fry

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs…

— Diane Ackerman

Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between…

— Johan Galtung

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains…

— Mark Twain

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act…

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed…

— Ray Bradbury

I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on…

— Jay Asher

Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the…

— Richard Pascale

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the…

— Jarvis Cocker

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I…

— John Daly

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear…

— Virginia Woolf

MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing…

— Thomas Pynchon

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd…

— Jodi Picoult

I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a…

— Francisco Costa

There's [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.

— Eyedea

Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

— Daphne Oz

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

— Clare Boothe Luce

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

I can go to a movie theater and sit there all day. I love movies. They intrigue my brain and they relax…

— Kirk Franklin

I'm lucky that my best strength as a wrestler has always been my brain.

— Kenny Omega

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

— J. F. C. Fuller

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

— Aimee Mann

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

— Charlie Sheen

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to…

— Tom Dreesen

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

— Steven Holl

The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.

— Baiju Bhatt

“The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.”

— Anthony Liccione

“When dealing with yourself use your brain, when dealing with others use your heart”

— Norm Applegate

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much.

— Simone Elkeles