Top 49 Shut Off Brain Quotes
#1. I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
David Foster Wallace
#2. You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.
Will Ferrell
#3. My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud
#4. You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after' - you remember that?
Amy Lane
#5. External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
Jules Verne
#6. If Mason had half a brain he would shut up, sit down, and not provoke Caleb any more than possible. But something told him Quinn didn't have half a brain and even less patience
Alex Morgan
#7. Kyle Davis is like malware. He's infiltrated my brain in a sneak virus attack. Every time I try and focus, he pops in my head the same way internet windows pop up faster than you can shut them down. You know when that happens you've opened something you shouldn't have.
Kate McCarthy
#8. A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should, - in fact, - it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always stay in that condition known as "status quo"; and grow up, antagonistic to all surroundings.
Ernest Vincent Wright
#9. There was a part of my brain that wanted to ask if his wife had a beard, verify my theory. I told that part of my brain to shut up.
R.R. Virdi
#10. That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know."
"Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind."
"I so wish you hadn't said that.
Rachel Caine
#11. Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
Ellen Hopkins
#12. I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton
#13. It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.
Andy Daly
#14. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
John Eric Erichsen
#16. I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport. For me it's just a way of life. It's a chance to finally shut your brain off, and live within the moment. And, for as long as I am able, I will ride until the day I die.
Travis Rice
#17. The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.
Norman Doidge
#18. I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Walter Raleigh
#19. The only way you're going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you're damned.
Toni Sorenson
#20. If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
Katherine Paterson
#21. No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.
Michio Kaku
#22. There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.
Taylor Swift
#24. Why is it that men reduce themselves to one-liners and bad movie quotes whenever they get into a fight?" said Parker. "Is there some kind of script they're supposed to follow when they get to this point? Or does the raging testosterone just shut down their higher brain functions?
Matt Forbeck
#25. Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
Lev Yilmaz
#26. What's of more concern: If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be.
Rachel Cohn
#27. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#28. Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.
Karin Slaughter
#29. I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.
Allison Winn Scotch
#30. My brain was telling me this was a bad idea and I told my brain to shut the fuck up, because it rarely told me anything helpful.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#31. I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.
Angelina Jolie
#32. The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
Eric Bogosian
#33. He settled into his ergonomically designed, yet inexpensive, chair and logged into his computer. He could do this. Just turn the computer on, shut brain down, and commence typing until fingers fell off. - Captain Lewis
Jacqueline Patricks
#34. Forget the rules. Fuck the rules. Shut up, Ashlyn. Keep your god damn legs closed. The battle between my brain and my body had officially begun. "And
Rachel Brookes
#35. I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
#36. Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds off exhausted?
Becky Albertalli
#37. 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
#38. I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin
Richelle Mead
#39. Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
Margot Asquith
#40. Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
Seth Godin
#41. Brain: You have no problem getting off, shut your whore mouth. Body: Did you just call my mouth a whore?
Jay McLean
#42. I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.
Zach Condon
#43. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.
Zelda Popkin
#44. Don't mind her; she's missing that part in her brain that tells her to shut up.
Quinn Loftis
#45. Friend: So, what do you wanna be when you're older!
Me: Oh! Well I
Brain: Dead
Me: No brain not now
Brain: Dead in the ground
Me: Shut the fuck up
Brain: A dead ass fucker in the ground
Unknown
#46. If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#47. When it had all become too much for the pixie, her brain had simply shut down, all except the most vital functions. She still breathed, and occasionally the monitors registered a dream spike in her brainwaves. But other than that, for all intents and purposes, Opal Koboi was no more.
Eoin Colfer
#48. Did he really not remember where it was, or is there some primitive
part of a man's brain that starts to shut down whenever a woman comes into their lives?
Tina Reber
#49. The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.
Mary Roach
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