Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Your heart knows only you but your brain thinks about everything and everyone.

Douglas Coupland

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

James D. Watson

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

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.

Diana Gabaldon

I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.

Homer

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

Roger Craig Smith

If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

Scott Westerfeld

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Steven Pinker

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

Steven Pinker

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Richard Griffiths

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

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.

Henry Cloud

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

Tom Kenny

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

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.

Nicholas Brendon

My brain is just always going and going and going.

Nicholas Hoult

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

Ned Vizzini

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Ned Vizzini

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

Niklaus Wirth

C++ is an insult to the human brain

John Piper

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

John Thaw

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

John Steinbeck

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

John Steinbeck

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

John Searle

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.