Brain Quotes
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Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
Napoleon Hill
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One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
Bob Newhart
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I am not interested in making money, for money is nothing but cash, while idea is wealth. May God open and sharpen our brains. May He guide us to control our brain resources for the good of humanity!
Sirika Hadi
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Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
Frank Deford
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There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.
Jon Favreau
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
David Eagleman
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He was not so much brain as earwax
William Shakespeare
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In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
Nellie McKay
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
William Mapother
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I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
Tionne Watkins TLC
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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).
Linus Torvalds
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
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I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.
Christine Quinn
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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Douglas Coupland
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My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser.
George Watsky
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When I cook, my brain stops completely.
Dino De Laurentiis
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When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is seared in my brain forever.
Allison Schroeder
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
A. A. Milne
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My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
William Shakespeare
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When I was nursing my son, you're up all the time during the first year, and you're sort of brain dead. So I'd find myself watching Turner Classic Movies at odd hours.
Elizabeth Marvel
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As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain disorder], they're obviously going to say "We don't want this to be a part of culture." And they overlook the fact that there's a huge swath of the populace where physicality is still a real common thing.
Chuck Klosterman
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Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.
Daniel Levitin
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I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.
Elizabeth Berg