Brain Quotes

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

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.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.