Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Kluger

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Jean Houston

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

Jacqueline Wilson

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

Hippocrates

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

Hillary Clinton

We also have to recognize, in addition to the challenges that we face with policing, there are so many good, brave police officers who equally want reform.

Hillary Clinton

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Ernest Hemingway

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Erma Bombeck

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

Erin Hunter

Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw...

Florence Scovel Shinn

I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

Flavor Flav

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

Euripides

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Francis of Assisi

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

Francis Crick

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

George Washington

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

George Washington

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

George Carlin

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

George Carlin

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Gail Tsukiyama

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

Frank Warren

Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

Fernando Pessoa

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

Henry Markram

I was always interested in curing the brain.

Henry Mayhew

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Henry Louis Gates

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Helen Keller

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Cat Power

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

George Eliot

Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

George Eliot

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

J. B. Smoove

I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

Isabel Allende

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.