Brains Quotes

985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a… — Orson Scott Card
You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of… — Maggie Stiefvater
No, it was the brutal loss of his family that haunted him and for that Nykyrian couldn’t fault him at all. Syn had been put… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the… — Holly Black
He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant… — Rachel Caine
There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched… — Guy de Maupassant
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. — Kurt Vonnegut
Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains. — Derek Landy
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related… — Malcolm Gladwell
And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know. — Deepak Chopra
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through… — Margaret Mitchell
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. — Ian Stewart
..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball… — Michael Buckley
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own… — Adrienne Rich
I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace. — Wilkie Collins
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir… — Robert Anton Wilson
Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had… — Jeannette Walls
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some… — L. Frank Baum
The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get. — Laini Taylor
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been — Angela Carter
George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each… — Alan Goldsher
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident. — Charlie Fletcher

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