Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out. — Richard Kadrey
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when… — Thomas Wolfe
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some… — Dorianne Laux
And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks. — Unknown Author
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not… — William Shakespeare
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach. — Agatha Christie
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse
So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. — Mignon McLaughlin
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. — Ellen Hopkins
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a… — Patrick Rothfuss
Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.… — L. Frank Baum
Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or… — Mark Haddon
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove… — Frances Hardinge
I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought,… — Cynthia Heimel
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,… — Karl Marx
The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean… — Jane Yolen
Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. — Philippa Gregory
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. — Samuel Beckett
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of… — Aristotle
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance… — William Shakespeare
There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might… — Obert Skye
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would… — John Wyndham

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