Brain Quotes
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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
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Stories are flight simulators for our brains.
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Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
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After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
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You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
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Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
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I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.
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We have friends who don't use psychoactive materials but who are still interested in how the brain works and psychology and spiritual training. It's a very large and very intelligent bunch of people. We have two big parties each year where people bring food and drink and get to know each other. It makes a very good party.
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The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.
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I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
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Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.
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I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.
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There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.
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Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.
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Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
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Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.
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The brain gives up a lot less easily than the body.
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
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It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.
