Cerebral Quotes

83 Cerebral quotes by 78 unique authors

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. — Geri Jewell
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature… — Ambrose Bierce
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations… — Wilhelm Wundt
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. — Richard Griffiths
Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation… — Clint Catalyst
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you… — Robert Hughes
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent. — Krista Tippett
Rick Perry is the perfect candidate for those who thought George W. Bush was just too dang cerebral. And Adios, Mofo is the perfect guide… — Paul Begala
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing — Barry S. Strauss
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut… — Chris Patten
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the… — Ray Kurzweil
What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about… — Chuck Klosterman
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images… — Henri Bergson
You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for… — Susan Cain
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with… — Henri
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.… — John Berger
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. — Bernard Berenson
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry… — Francesca Lia Block
What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C.… — Kal Penn
I'm more cerebral than I want to be. — Chris Pine
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. — Scott Weiland
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. — Rita Coolidge
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. — Iain Banks

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