Brains Quotes
985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors
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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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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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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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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with…
— Raymond Chandler
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending…
— Janet Frame
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You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was…
— Charles Dickens
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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
— Agatha Christie
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My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Don't duh me!" Puck snapped. "Trying to figure out what you're thinking from one day to the next takes more brains than I have." Well,…
— Michael Buckley
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If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people…
— L. Frank Baum
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There’s too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d’in. (Jericho) Yes, I di’id. Don’t make me use my…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
— Rick Riordan
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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
— Robert Frost
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Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.
— Jennifer Crusie
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains…
— Dorothy Parker
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The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us…
— Loren Eiseley
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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one…
— Jodi Picoult
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She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant…
— John Steinbeck
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Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...
— Baroness Orczy
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Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost…
— Loretta Chase
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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is…
— Suzanne Collins
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How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
— Gail Carriger
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