James Mattis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
-
I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
-
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
-
I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
-
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
-
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
-
The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
-
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.
-
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
-
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
-
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
-
What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
-
Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
-
I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
-
The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
-
I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
-
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
-
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
-
No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
-
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
-
Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.
-
My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.
-
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.
-
Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.
