Brain Quotes
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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
Rita Mae Brown
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They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
William Cowper
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The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.
Dave Courtney
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What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Seth MacFarlane
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But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.
Virginia Woolf
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When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.
Jill Soloway
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Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
Daniel Amen
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If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
Bill Crawford
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My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.
Gene Luen Yang
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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
Humphrey Bogart
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Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.
Gail Simone
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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
Shawn Achor
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I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
Diane Ackerman
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No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
William Borah
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Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.
Sharon Begley
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In the long term, the fragmentation of attention, a breaking up of focus and mental continuity, can disrupt neural connections in the brain and eventually lead to a literally ‘shallower’ neurological structure. It makes us – on the physiological level of the brain, as well as of the mind – less capable of concentration and continuous thought.
Eva Hoffman
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I have trashed the to-do list. To help my brain...
Brigid Schulte
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Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
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If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.
Sebastian Faulks
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I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.
Euan Uglow
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That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
Alice Cooper
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The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
George Sand
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
Benjamin Carson
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I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.
Richard Nelson Bolles