Brains Quotes
985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors
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I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You…
— J D Salinger
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what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
— Allen Ginsberg
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If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who…
— Temple Grandin
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I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
— Jodi Picoult
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and…
— Virginia Woolf
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Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm…
— Elbert Hubbard
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In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance…
— Joseph Heller
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Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.
— A A Milne
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Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
— C.S. Lewis
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Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?
— L. Frank Baum
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He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
— Charles Spurgeon
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What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that…
— Scott Adams
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Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said…
— Douglas Adams
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to…
— Homer
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no…
— Winston Churchill
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