Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Tennant

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

Newt Gingrich

Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately.

Noam Chomsky

The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.

Haile Gebrselassie

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

H. P. Lovecraft

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

Molly Harper

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

Molly Ivins

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

Natalia Makarova

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Keith Barry

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

Katie Price

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

Margaret Cavendish

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Margaret Cho

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Buzz Aldrin

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Janet Evanovich

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

Jane McGonigal

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.

David Beckham

People don't think I've got the brains to be that clever.

William Shakespeare

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

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.

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

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

Michael Leunig

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Telecommuting isn't brain surgery. It's very easy to implement, but it's breaking down the barriers.

T. S. Eliot

Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

John Gunther

perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was.

Jonathan Adelstein

These records can include some of the most private personal information about an individual. Finding out who people are calling and for how long can be like picking someone's brain about their friends, plans or business dealings.

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

That's when I found out it was a tumor, and that he had fluid on the brain, which was building up and that's why he couldn't walk. You never think your child has a brain tumor. That's not something you entertain.

They said they loved seeing theater and sitting on the grass on the waterfront as long as it's well done. The hour we decided to do 'Crowns' is the hour we wanted to talk to Sharon. She has the energy, the brains and the presence for this show.

They say the brain heals for up to two years. He's going through different stages of coming out of it. They tell us he could wake up one day and be normal, or not wake up at all.

A lot of people are dissatisfied with the so-called mainstream media, and they'll sample us? When you're abroad, you buy and read The International Herald Tribune. Here, you read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times. You're a regular reader of The New Republic. Probably the same itch that makes you exercise your brain on dense, serious news organs will make you watch us.

A lot of these games are won in your head. If some of your brain is distracted by the scoreboard or thinking the other team is better, it carves you up. We tell the guys, if you continue to do what you're supposed to do it will all work out.

This is essentially the first study that is actually looking at the size of the brain directly and not through imaging.