Brain Quotes
4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors
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…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.
— Rick Riordan
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There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living…
— Ralph Moody
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The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,…
— Gaston Leroux
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest…
— Max Brooks
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He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.
— Ted Chiang
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had…
— Gena Showalter
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So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.…
— Nicholson Baker
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She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he…
— Jodi Picoult
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What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't…
— Richelle Mead
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All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with…
— L. Frank Baum
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Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
— Seth Godin
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But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim…
— Katherine Dunn
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She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to…
— Lauren Myracle
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What this movie needs is more brain eating zombies.
— Christopher Moore
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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non…
— Maira Kalman
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The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It…
— Rob Sheffield
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And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs…
— Meg Rosoff
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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
— Rita Mae Brown
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