Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Kay

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Johnson

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Warren Buffett

Be brave when others are afraid, and afraid when others are brave.

Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

Vincent Van Gogh

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too...

Virginia Woolf

travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ...

Virginia Woolf

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Virginia Woolf

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

William Bernbach

Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

William Congreve

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Cowper

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

Tony Stewart

I broke my leg is all I did. I didnt break my brain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

Robertson Davies

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?

Robert Pattinson

The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.

Winston Churchill

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Ty Segall

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

Twyla Tharp

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

William Styron

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

Walter Scott

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Walter Dean Myers

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth: Hey, Seaweed Brain. Percy: Will you stop calling me that? Annabeth: You know you love it.

Rick Riordan

Whats up, Seaweed Brain?

Rick Riordan

My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus?

Rick Riordan

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.

Rick Riordan

You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!

Rick Riordan

Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.

Veronica Roth

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

Veronica Roth

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

Veronica Roth

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.