Rian Johnson Quotes

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

Rian Johnson

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• A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Brain
  • Pool

• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Men are separated by so many petty things.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Men
  • Things
  • Petty

• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Things
  • Evidence

• We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Things
  • Plan
  • Return

• The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Things
  • Moon
  • Stars

• The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Value
  • Things

• He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.

  

  Alice Walker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Brain

• I saw Bobby Green and Lando Vannata, and everybody in the back was like, 'Oh, man, that's a sick fight!' And I'm like, 'Dude, look at his face, that cannot be good for his brain.' I'm just honest.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Sick

• Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.

  

  Billy Evans
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Moving

• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Past
  • Brain
  • Couple

• A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Game
  • Football
  • Brain

• Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • May
  • Job
  • Football

• The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Trying

• There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Power
  • Things
  • I Think

• All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • Live
  • Die
  • Things

• I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells.

  

  Gannicus
  • Words
  • Fill

• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Country
  • Service

• I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Brain
  • Things
  • Believer