Brains Quotes

985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains. — Charles Portis
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. — Ambrose Bierce
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,… — Michael Cunningham
Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another. — Mari Mancusi
A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been… — Jostein Gaarder
Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl… — Harold Bell Wright
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity… — Jack London
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a… — Siri Hustvedt
And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to… — Agatha Christie
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they… — Oscar Wilde
I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead. — Michelle Sagara
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway... — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people… — Laurence Sterne
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein
Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size. — Loretta Chase
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and… — Steven Pressfield
Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows. "We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains. — Ilona Andrews
You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains.… — Imre KertÃ©sz
You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day. — Terry Pratchett
For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use… — L. Frank Baum
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners… — Jennifer Egan
Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Give them your brains, girl, never your guts. — Nora Roberts

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