Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Our brains are meaning machines. What we understand as “meaning” is generated by the associations our brain makes between two or more… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
I love dipping into worlds at a fast and furious pace. A little glimpse allows the audience to put together the rest… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“A child's brain is like fly paper that hangs from a barn ceiling: it doesn't get to choose which memories fly away… — Helen Peppe Copy Share Image
When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that's just weird. It's… — Sean Biggerstaff Copy Share Image
There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of… — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I decided I was going to play Cleopatra as someone with a brain. She's kept Egypt, this tiny country, in a balance… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead… — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my… — Natalie Morales Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
