Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like… — Louise Erdrich
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we… — C. V. Wedgwood
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won. — Albert Brooks
(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology. — Roger Wolcott Sperry
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite… — Nicholson Baker
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are… — Miranda Richardson
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in… — Bruce Jenner
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power,… — Richard Dreyfuss
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're… — Shalom Harlow
High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one… — Michael Keaton
You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans! — Mark Russell
I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. — Helen Hunt
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like… — Steve Carell
I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted.… — Sophie Kinsella
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and… — Steve Berry
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your… — Michael Azerrad
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are… — Caleb Carr
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly… — Eben Alexander
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not… — Marco Arment
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally… — Algernon Blackwood
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain. — Aloe Blacc
But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand. — Art Bell
When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted… — David Baltimore

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