Top 100 Brain'd Quotes
#3. An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.
Paul D. MacLean
#4. It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.
Charlie Munger
#5. I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.
Neal Shusterman
#6. Angry eyes met his. He was sure she'd try to get him back in some way before this was all over. Oddly enough, he was amused by the thought. He wondered just what tortures Natalie Ellis could dream up in her busy little brain.
Elizabeth Hunter
#7. If I were a zombie
I'd never eat your brain
I'd just want your heart
Stephanie Mabey
#8. I prefer to be covered. I don't wear a lot of low-cut things. I'd rather keep the attention to my brain, my face.
Sarah Hay
#9. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts -Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion
#10. she'd grown accustomed to the idea that she was sleeping with a galactic version of Indiana Jones. All he's missing is a cool hat and perhaps a few more brain cells than his onboard medical scanner realizes.
Eve Langlais
#11. I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam. It makes the whole thing a lot easier to swallow. Easier, not enjoyable.
Kris D'Agostino
#12. The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.
Daniel Kahneman
#13. The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.
Mercedes Lackey
#14. It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
Richard D. James
#15. Oh, yeah,' she said. 'He likes your brain, J.D., but he ain't attracted to you, which is a cryin' shame, if you don't mind me sayin' so.'
No. How could I mind the truth? It was a cryin' shame, and my tears almost dripped right into my stuffing.
Megan McCafferty
#16. It was incredible. It was like he was fucking her with his eyes, his teeth, and his cock. She was triply screwed, maybe even screwed quadruple when she took into account her brain because there was a total mind fuck happening here, too.
D.D. Prince
#17. For the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching ... by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.
Stephen King
#18. No way am I letting you mess around in my brain. You might incinerate it."
I rolled my eyes. "Like you'd even miss it."
"Ha, ha.
Mindee Arnett
#19. For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.
Sanya Richards-Ross
#20. Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
D. A. Pennebaker
#21. Ven has chronic mouth-runs-faster-than-his-brain syndrome, as we all know, but none is better in a fight. I doubt he'd serve Atlantis so well as a preening bird.
Alyssa Day
#22. Great. Now she's got you questioning yourself. What a bitch."
"Hey now, brain. Don't you talk about her like that. I'd hate to have to kick your ass."
My brain smiles and nods in approval.
"See? Good guy
Belle Aurora
#23. Canst thou not ...
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous
Stuff
Which weights upon the heart?
William Shakespeare
#24. I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, It's a stormy night. Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: It's a calm night. Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.
Albert Brooks
#25. I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
Jim Harrison
#26. Those who can find faults in everything have a brain,
Those who can find goodness in everything have a heart
Luca D.L.
#27. Brain death didn't allow one time to heal, and the brain was the warehouse for the spirit. Punch a hole in that and you'd shuffle off your mortal coil right away.
Keeping your coil unshuffled was the problem.
Kevin Hearne
#28. When Dad was a kid, he wanted to be a lumberjack, but unfortunately he'd been cursed with the build of an accountant and the brain of an astrophysicist. These qualities had combined to make him the third-most-visited orthodontist in northern New Jersey.
Kieran Scott
#29. You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
Dianna Hardy
#30. If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.
Ernest Hemingway,
#31. C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.
Stephen King
#32. Matt discovered that no matter how terrified he'd been at first, it wasn't possible to stay terrified. It was as though his brain said, Okay. That's enough. Let's find something else to do.
Nancy Farmer
#33. Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt.
Liane Moriarty
#34. Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.
James Patterson
#35. When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.
Edward Norton
#36. If you looked inside his brain at this moment you'd see all the little synapses, Catherine wheels and penny bangers and skyrockets, all firing off into space in some sparkling display of gathering momentum. I don't want to look into his brain. Looking into his eyes is bad enough.
Ellie Marney
#37. If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
James D. Watson
#38. No way was he touching that subject, and dammit, now the image was burned into his brain. Unfortunately, it wasn't like an Etch A Sketch - no shaking his head up and down to get rid of that image.
S.J.D. Peterson
#39. The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.
Maryam D'Abo
#40. When you have been concentrating so hard on something you can't stop and your brain gets to racing like a fly-wheel with the weight gone. You'd better just not think.
Ernest Hemingway,
#41. In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.
Jimmy Fallon
#42. She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
Jodi Picoult
#43. I'd learned quite early in life that the mind loves nothing better than to spook itself with outlandish stories, as if the various coils of the brain were no more than a troop of roly-poly Girl Guides huddled over a campfire in the darkness of the skull.
Alan Bradley
#44. If these bugs made their way into my brain, they'd devour me from the inside out and use my soul to raise more dead. Shit. Where was a can of Raid when a werewolf needed one? The
Cecy Robson
#45. And the hair on his arms stood erect and some primal siren sounded in his brain, but mistaking terror for adrenaline, he walked down into the darkness because he'd never felt more alive.
Blake Crouch
#46. In her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
Holly Black
#47. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.
Dave Eggers
#48. Oh my gosh, she'd cracked. Her mother was right. Too much Wonderland and sugar had finally rotter her brain.
Marie Hall
#49. Kissing Red must've killed off some of your brain cells," Ryder decided. "You can tell a woman what to do
if you play it right
and maybe, maybe half the time she'd do it, or something close to it. That's a live woman. A dead one? I figure that's closer to zero.
Nora Roberts
#50. In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
Helena Christensen
#51. The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
James D. Watson
#52. THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He'd jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain.
John Sandford
#53. He'd gone so long without a brain, and the thought of all that wasted time was nearly enough to make him cry - except, of course, that he couldn't. At least he was a king now. That was something. He was powerful. He was smart. And he was getting smarter by the minute.
Danielle Paige
#54. Get down!" Azura yells. I have the bizarre urge to yell back, "Get funky!" but fortunately that part of my brain isn't in charge of my reflexes.
D.D. Barant
#55. My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#56. Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.
Cynthia Kenyon
#57. She'd been so docile that Nina had become concerned. "Maybe she's not getting enough blood to her
brain?" she'd murmured to Matthias.
Leigh Bardugo
#58. The beautiful man-boy that held my heart in his memories, who claimed my soul with his smile. I knew that if I kept looking in those deadly eyes, I'd sink into their infinite depths, lost forever. And something in my brain, in my heart, allowed that to be okay.
T. Torrest
#59. There is one man," the artist said after a moment. He'd paled. "H. F. Powell."
"Where would I find him?"
West didn't seem to hear him for a moment. He shook his head as if clearing away cobwebs from his brain. "Find him?" His laugh was more of a grunt. "Six feet under, last I checked.
B. J. Daniels
#60. You could drop Tony Stark naked in the middle of the desert and he'd fly out in a jet made of sand and cactus needles. It's not his *stuff* that gives him power. It's his *brain*. Try using yours. You'll be amazed the difference it makes.
Charles Soule
#61. Actually, now I don't even eat that much anymore. If you tried to follow me now, you'd be in trouble. You wouldn't be able to follow through on life during the day. You wouldn't focus. You'd get brain cramps, probably.
Robby Albarado
#62. If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we'd still be wearing togas.
Kelley Armstrong
#63. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#64. Strategically placed at the level of her T3 vertebra, just below the deepest back on any of her blouses, was a tattoo of the human brain. He had to look away or else he'd jump her bones all over again. The brain got him every time.
Meredith Marple
#65. If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?
Nicholas Kristof
#66. Couldn't change the brain I'd been born with, so instead I learned how to narrow the world with makeshift blinders, until all I noticed was what I wanted to notice. That's autism, for those who've never been there themselves.
Jodi Picoult
#67. If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.
Shelley Long
#68. Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M
Isaac Marion
#69. He'd done it. He'd gone and flipped the psycho switch in my brain again.
R.K. Lilley
#70. Had my first son this morning ... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain ... If you could bottle up and distribute this feeling, I swear there'd be no more war.
James Van Der Beek
#71. Eternity, I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.
Tima Maria Lacoba
#72. Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.
Erma Bombeck
#73. In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
Maryam D'Abo
#74. My brain might have been high on fuckjuice, but that didn't make me stupid.
C.D. Reiss
#75. I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting."
My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.
Lilith Saintcrow
#76. If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.
Ray Bradbury
#77. That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other ... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
Ringo Starr
#78. Reality crashed into my brain: I'd never see my black tiger again.
P. 420, Kelsey
Colleen Houck
#79. My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.
James Gunn
#80. Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.
James D. Beers
#81. If I was someone else, I'd leave and give them privacy, but I'm not. I won't leave her out here with him. My brain knows he'd never hurt her and she doesn't have feelings for him. My heart, however, tells me to take her by the waist and pull her away...
Michelle Dare
#82. Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble.
Kristen D. Randle
#83. My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.
Marya Hornbacher
#84. The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.
D.H. Lawrence
#85. Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.
Tyler Oakley
#86. I don't know why, but for a second, my brain was sure that it would be Anna, that she'd be pounding the door down off its hinges with blackveined fists, ready to catch me with my pants down. But we were just doing dishes. My pants are firmly affixed.
Kendare Blake
#87. Gavin's reply was almost too soft to be heard. "That's a crime." "Pardon? What is?" "That you don't get to handle wood as often as you'd like." "Sorry?" Derrick blinked in confusion, missing the innuendo entirely for a split second before his brain made the connection.
Amelia C. Gormley
#88. She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who'd been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.
Dennis Lehane
#89. Gabe's brain told him that this was a very, very bad idea.
Aside from the fact that it went against the credo he'd lived by for the past half a decade, getting mixed up with a vamp could get him killed.
His dick told his brain to shut the hell up. It did.
Lou Harper
#90. I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
Winston Churchill
#91. Can't you nudge her into submission? (Taryn)
Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I'd fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. Love turned everybody's brain sideways, just like a stunner.
J.D. Robb
#93. My brother has absolutely no sense of self-preservation or survival instinct," Eli said. "He has no idea we're out here. We could be silver-eating, flesh-regenerating, vampire zombies, and when we busted through the door to eat his brilliant brain, he'd look up and say, 'Huh?
Faith Hunter
#94. If this went on much longer, Mary Augustin told herself, her brain would be riddled with question marks, hundreds of little hooks set so deep they'd never let go.
Sara Donati
#95. Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.
David C. Holley
#96. Yeah, he'd been trained to be good with details, but once his dick started working, his brain generally shifted to standby.
Pamela Clare
#97. I'd need rest to refresh my brain, and to get rest it's necessary to travel, and to travel one must have money, and in order to get money you have to work ... I am in a vicious circle ... from which it is impossible to escape.
Honore De Balzac
#98. The eyes can see nothing; the mind can see everything that the brain is ready to see.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Luckily, she'd remembered to wear her brain-to-mouth filter today.
. . .
"How big are you?" Apparently, her filter still let stupid questions slip out. (Angie)
Annie Nicholas
#100. He looked so boring I didn't dare get too close to him for fear he'd snatch part of my brain
Donald Jans
