Brain Quotes

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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of… — Walter Scott
It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be… — Chris Chelios
Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a… — Brendan Shanahan
I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire! — Bobby Hull
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry… — Stephen Hawking
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than… — P.G. Wodehouse
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. — William Shakespeare
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put… — William Shakespeare
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the… — P.J. O'Rourke
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around… — Elbert Hubbard
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. — Jerry Lee Lewis
If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee. — Shelley Long
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be… — W. Somerset Maugham
I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All. — A A Milne
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius. — Ashley Montagu
If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel? — Van Morrison
We have our own brains. — Pervez Musharraf
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. — Isaac Newton
It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment. — Roger Penrose
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or… — Pliny the Elder

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