Brain Quotes · Page 51

“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.”

— Daniel J. Levitin

Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

— Philippa Gregory

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

— William Shakespeare

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

— Albert Einstein

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

— Edward Abbey

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

— Victor J. Stenger

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

— William Shakespeare

Your brain may be affected by the whole world if you came out of the house | Do not forget (the equivalent…

— Mak_786

Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are…

— Mary Pilon

You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then,…

— Bikram Choudhury

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard…

— Edward Boyden

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events…

— Matt Ridley

I'd say most stuntmen are injured working with horses. They have a one-celled brain and change their minds right in the middle…

— Hal Needham

Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line…

— Jaggi Vasudev

When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I've always been interested in the paranormal, but 'Gray Matter' is a more subtle, mature expression of that - looking at the…

— Jane Jensen

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep…

— Alexa Chung

First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth…

— B. C. Forbes

Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the…

— Howard Rheingold

(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child…

— Roald Dahl

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be…

— Marya Hornbacher

“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that…

— António R. Damásio

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the…

— Tom Hooper

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

— Benjamin Carson

Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

— Rick Warren

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the…

— Billy Collins

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

— Richard Hammond

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

— Sam Ewing

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

— James Nesbitt

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of…

— Chris Pine

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

— Anonymous

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

— Alison McGhee

If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

— Walt Dohrn

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

— Stephen King

Having a conversation with some people is like a little vacation for your brain.

— Linda Poindexter