Agatha Christie Quotes

But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!

Agatha Christie

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• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Evidence

• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Brain
  • Child
  • Face

• I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Book
  • Science
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • People
  • Brain
  • See

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• 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.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Brain

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Brain

• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Always
  • Brain

• I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Brain
  • Changes

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Imagination

• All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

  

  William Albert Allard
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Personality

• I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

  

  Mary Hart
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Done

• But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Brain