Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

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.

Jim Scantlin

The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had is gone. It's been destroyed. And the doctor was right for 20 years. She did nothing to speak of.

Giulio Tononi

The brain breaks down into little islands that can't talk to one another.

Santiago Ramón

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. --""The Mad Philosopher,"" 1697

Ken Mayland

Any long-term plan without an education component isn't a complete plan. We are seeing a brain drain.

Irving Berlin

A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain She'll start upon A marathon And run around your brain

Chuck Hogan

Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

Donald Wilson

The olfactory system, anatomically, is right in the middle of the part of the brain that's very important for memory. There are strong neural connections between the two.

Michael Bradley

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.

Greek proverb

If you do not have brains you have legs.

Ed Cange

The thing we talked about all week was playing fundamentally sound. If you do that, it's hard for a team to get a run. Runs normally happen when somebody breaks down, and I didn't think we had any huge breakdowns.

Benjie Wood

I've never been more proud of a group of girls in my life. Unfortunately, the breaks just didn't go our way tonight.

Stephanie Laurens

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

Ryan Robertson

Some breaks went our way, and we know how tough (the Jacks) are. Three years ago, they kicked us, physically, in the semifinals. And two years ago, they kicked us in this gym to end our season.

Tristan Davis

Speed is going to help us out because if someone breaks one, we're going to have to catch them.

Goldie Hawn

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.

Matt Cimo

Sometimes you have to get some breaks in games like this, and we got a huge one on that last play.

Bob Burchard

Sometimes you get so into preparing for games and you don't get to work on the fundamentals. I think it's nice to have some extended breaks at this time of the year.

Mack Brown

So much for hangovers. I was worried about it all week ... He (Young) just breaks teams' backs.

Samir Acharya

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

Dolly Parton

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Albert Camus

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Andre Johnson

I just need to go to like an island or something,

Suzanne Vega

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Tom Waits

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Stephenie Meyer

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

Tim Bishop

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Sean Coffey

Now I have a lot more time to talk to them, and they probably won't like me as much,

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Mike Eaves

That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.