Brains Quotes
985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors
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If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
— Kevin Spacey
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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but…
— Gloria Swanson
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a…
— Lewis Thomas
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We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to…
— Lewis Thomas
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
— Lily Tomlin
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And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like…
— Jim Valvano
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be…
— Jack Welch
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I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.
— Joss Whedon
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
— Woodrow Wilson
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould…
— Virginia Woolf
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Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed…
— Frans de Waal
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed…
— Hanna Rosin
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick…
— Haruki Murakami
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In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.
— Stephen King
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Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on…
— Horace Mann
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect…
— Douglas Adams
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Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and…
— Robert Wright
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order…
— Louise Erdrich
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But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!
— Bill Watterson
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The…
— Richard Dawkins
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Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.
— Erwin Rommel
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