Brain Quotes

• I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

  

  John Buchan
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Space

• Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.

  

  D. J. Taylor
  • People
  • Hate
  • Understanding

• If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Brain

• Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Remember
  • Waiting
  • Prince

• I'm cooking 42 years, and I didn't know bananas are good for my brain.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Cooking

• I sat there in awe that some guy overseas, trying to protect our interests, was using a silly comedy as a survival tool. My brain had an explosion. I was really moved by that.

  

  David Denman
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• 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
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Wish

• Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Work
  • Job
  • Environment

• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Children
  • Real
  • Brain

• Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

  

  Asia Argento
  • World
  • Attractive
  • Kisser

• If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Someone
  • Hug
  • Drop

• A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

  

  David Alpay
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Cool

• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Enough
  • Able

• Healthy breaks can hit the reset button in your brain, restoring some of the glucose and other metabolic nutrients used up with deep thought. A healthy break is one in which you allow your brain to rest, to loosen its grip on your thoughts.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Deep

• 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

• You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Brain

• It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Brain

• Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Different
  • Friend
  • Like

• I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • People
  • Time
  • Giving

• The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Weight
  • Cells
  • Human Brain

• The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

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