Brain Quotes

"What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by"

"We want Google to be the third half of your brain"

"Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea"

Scott Reed

"Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing"

Matt Damon, Actor

"As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain"

Arthur Symons, Poet

"For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim"

Joshua Jackson, Actor

"My brain is open"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are"

Jeff Hawkins, Inventor

"Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process"

Bruce Jenner, Athlete

"All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon"

Roger Bacon, Philosopher

"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought"

Arthur Bryant, Historian

"Use your brain, not your endurance"

Peter Thomson, Athlete

"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"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes"

Joshua Jackson, Actor

"When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"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"

Lydia Lunch, Musician

"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain"

David Baltimore, Scientist

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun"

Michael Keaton, Actor

"I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain"

Shania Twain, Musician

"The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit"

Michael Bay, Director

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

Leon Kass, Educator

"Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing"

Jude Law, Actor

"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain"

Mose Allison, Musician

"My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart"

Vanessa Carlton, Musician

"The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ"

Kate Clinton, Comedian

"I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose"

Donal Henahan

"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability"

Susan Boyle, Musician

"Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me"

Lake Bell, Actress

"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door"

Harvey Milk, Politician

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