Brains Quotes

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

We put the Children to death... by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.