I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city.… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
It's easier for our brains to have a list of rules and say, "If we keep these rules, we're in, and if… — Mark Lowry Copy Share Image
“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things.… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“As parents move from defensive processes to increased empathy for their children, the children's attachment security increases. Thus, on one side we… — Daniel J. Siegel, M.D Copy Share Image
Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved,… — zelda popkin Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image