Brain Quotes

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Books, the children of the brain.

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

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.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.