Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Charles Hare

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Judy Woodruff

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

Paul Daniels

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

George Lucas

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

George MacDonald

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Ellen Hopkins

Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.

Jim Thome

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Lois Lowry

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Lou Gramm

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

John Goodman

Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

John Flanagan

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.

Jonathan Lethem

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Franzen

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

Kate Upton

I can never find the right bras.

Kate Winslet

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

Kate Atkinson

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

Kate Beckinsale

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Katherine Center

There is no tenderness without bravery.

Katherine Center

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

Katherine Dunn

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

James Madison

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Erik Brynjolfsson

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Erich Segal

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

Eric Sevareid

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Emma Stone

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

John Hagee

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.

John Engler

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Joel Kinnaman

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

Garry Kasparov

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Garry Kasparov

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.