Quotes About Brains

#1. It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush.

Raymond Chandler

#2. When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.

Sherry Turkle

#3. Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.

Andrew Zolli

#4. I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that'll make me come my brains out, of course I'm curious. But I'm never gonna go there, because gross.

Amy Jo Cousins

#5. With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Giordano Bruno

#6. I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.

Dave Asprey

#7. Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

Stefan Fatsis

#8. Owl, you and I have brains. The others have fluff

Rabbit

#9. No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

Christopher Moore

#10. Thought changes structure ... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

Norman Doidge

#11. There is significant evidence, however, that Bonin was in the grip of what's known as "cognitive tunneling" - a mental glitch that sometimes occurs when our brains are forced to transition abruptly from relaxed automation to panicked attention.

Charles Duhigg

#12. I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas ... responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. Stick your stainless steel spoon in this unhappy old man's brains Doctor ... and stir.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

Soichiro Honda

#15. Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.

Mark Frauenfelder

#16. The commonest way to cheat an employer is not by stealing his money or loafing on the job, but by refusing to disagree when you feel he is wrong. If he is paying you for your brains, and not just for your body, an employee has an obligation to dissent from decisions he thinks wrong.

Sibichen K. Mathew

#17. Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

Gloria Steinem

#18. God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

#19. We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Euripides

#20. If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

John Buchan

#21. Out of my way, Private, or your brains go public.

M.R. Carey

#22. If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.

Chaim Potok

#23. Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

George Horace Lorimer

#24. Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

M T Anderson

#25. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

Tim Harford

#26. I used my brains to outsmart teachers - and that wasn't very smart at all.

L.J.Smith

#27. It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

Miguel Nicolelis

#28. More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Jeffrey Kluger

#29. It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Baltasar Gracian

#30. Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains - do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

Henry Ford

#31. Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks ... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.
It's really not even fair to everyone else.

Richelle Mead

#32. But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

MacDonald Harris

#33. There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#34. People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Jaron Lanier

#35. As all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

Julia McNair Wright

#36. The books we read in literature classes
just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.

Matthew Quick

#37. Everybody else seemed to know how to play this game. It was like they had their games all chosen for them. Those fucks seemed to have some cheat sheet built right into their brains that had all the rules and tips and clues to these games spelled out on them.

Andersen Prunty

#38. The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go ... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Barbara Kingsolver

#39. I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

Cat Power

#40. It me birthday and nobody came ... Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.

Graham Roumieu

#41. It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

Chuck Palahniuk

#42. Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Sam Walter Foss

#43. OMG OMG OMG, Shane is totally crushing on the new roomie! I can't believe it. I always pictured Shane going after blond beach hotties. Who knew he liked big brains and teeny little bodies? Although, to be fair, she is cute as a button. (Why do we say that? What's so cute about a button, anyway?)

Rachel Caine

#44. You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.

Georgette Heyer

#45. Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

Eyedea

#46. I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

Paul Kalanithi

#47. That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

George Foreman

#48. For me hotness was a complicated matter involving brains, humor, and some other things, but all that aside, I was willing to admit Sean Evans was nice to look at.

Ilona Andrews

#49. 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 believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

Agatha Christie

#50. A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Anita Loos

#51. ... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

Ken Follett

#52. My wife, ladies and gentlemen. Beauty, brains, and now brawn.

Richelle Mead

#53. Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#54. The thought of my mother talking to me about sex makes me want to stab my eyes out with a fork, gouge even deeper and scramble my brains to prevent the conversation from ever happening.

Addison Moore

#55. The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index ... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

James O'Shaughnessy

#56. Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#57. After all, Humans reacted differently to coupling than she did. Didn't their brains get overloaded with chemicals afterward, way more than normal people?

Becky Chambers

#58. You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

Mel Brooks

#59. I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

Lee Trevino

#60. There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

Anton Chekhov

#62. As has already been stated: some people's brains border their anal regions. Thus, their senses are dulled, and the psychopathological pestilence is such that the intrepid scholar-explorer inevitably butts up against a dead end.

Juan Filloy

#63. It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

Chris Chelios

#64. Night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

Eloisa James

#65. Our brains are organized by narrative and image. After

Gloria Steinem

#66. These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#67. Fiction. Anthropologists have theorized that we gravitate toward dangerous stories because of the deeper chemical need in our brains to feel the rush and

Anonymous

#68. It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

Friedrich Engels

#69. Some people say ... that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We're not very good at it though, are we?

Jane Goodall

#70. For instance, few realize that we are changing the brains of schoolchildren through medication in order to make them adjust to the curriculum, rather than the reverse.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#71. It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#72. Only mistake people do in their relationship is that they also use their brains to make love.

Jitendra Bhardwaj

#73. We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

Dan Ariely

#74. I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

R.S. Thomas

#75. Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son.

J.K. Rowling

#76. Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

Elliot W. Eisner

#77. We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

Mika Brzezinski

#78. If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.

William McCune

#79. I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Joseph Brodsky

#80. He was the sort of languid and elegant young man one would expect to find at a country house party, playing croquet with Bertie Wooster. Frightfully good fun, but not too many brains.

Rhys Bowen

#81. Beauty, brains and a brazen attitude, she was everything he'd never realized he was looking for until he'd found her.

Avery Flynn

#82. The limited mind owned by human..
requires billions of brains of many generations,
before capable enough to understand the truth,
the kind of truth which will set us free.

Toba Beta

#83. These guys, my guys, are a bunch of assholes and I have to dig deep to find things about them I like so I can keep their secrets and keep them alive. Then they do these things, they betray me, and I have to let go of the love I worked so hard to find and splatter their brains all over the wall.

Bonnie Morse

#84. Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

Rick Warren

#85. Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

Jose Mourinho

#86. Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

L. Frank Baum

#87. To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

John Eccles

#88. [We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Thandie Newton

#89. I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

Sebastian Coe

#90. Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it.

Michael Marshall

#91. Never trust on unknown hands, You will never know how they stand by you and back stab with their brains.

Debolina Bhawal

#92. Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

Warren Buffett

#93. As usual when I drank too much I started talking about things I should'nt ... That night Kate told me I had no brains and she was officially done with me. OK, fair enough. I already knew that I was an idiot, stepping for the third time in the same shit with the same left foot.

Joanna Mazurkiewicz

#94. When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else. (Death of a Doxie)

Rex Stout

#95. The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of inevitable simplifications; and for different durations

Milan Kundera

#96. Jocks usually aren't smart. Their muscles feast on their brains.

Katie McGarry

#97. We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

Michael Shermer

#98. You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

Shawn Achor

#99. The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Julie Christie

#100. There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht