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
“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
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
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
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
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
It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
My curling personality really had the killer instinct, compared to the real me. I kind of liken it to when a surgeon… — Colleen Jones Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a… — John Keats 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we could really measure our brain's activity, it would be a historical turning point for Homo sapiens, making radical human cognitive… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I had the idea to use electrical potential collected from the surface of the heat that our brain generates, it's like authentication… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think it's just more things have happened in my life that made my brain go a little nutty and over-analytical that… — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines,… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in… — Joe Rogan 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
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
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
