Brain Quotes · Page 90

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

— Shelley Long

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

— Jason Babin

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

— David Eagleman

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

— Carl Sagan

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

— Terry Pratchett

The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

— Daniel Mazia

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is,…

— Bill Viola

My brain never stops thinking about basketball, and even when I'm asleep, I'm thinking about basketball. I love it; I love the…

— Penny Hardaway

The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,'…

— Andrea Leadsom

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of…

— Marya Hornbacher

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing…

— Gilbert Arenas

Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…

— James Weldon Johnson

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in…

— Brad Warner

Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello…

— Terry Pratchett

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her…

— William Shakespeare

The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better…

— Leopold Auer

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're…

— Gail Simone

In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn't sure what to do next, I would go and learn a lot,…

— Andrew Ng

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us…

— Sxip Shirey

I'm the only one to separate siamese twins.The only one to operate on babies while they were still in mother's womb, the…

— Benjamin Carson

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not…

— Terry Pratchett

One doesn't need a particular height or body to be a villain in movies. He needs the brain and the look.

— Ali

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

— Hannibal

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

— Oscar Wilde

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

— Jonathan Cainer

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

— David Bellos

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

— Louis Kronenberger

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

— Anonymous

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

— Zach Condon

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

— Molly Harper

“Here is a startling fact: Your brain is designed to spend as little time thinking as possible.”

— Anonymous

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

— James Patterson

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

— Louis van Gaal

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

— Hazel Henderson

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

— Benjamin Franklin

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the…

— Roger Penrose