Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randall Munroe

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

James Patterson

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

Taylor Swift

I stay out too late Got nothing in my brain

Stephenie Meyer

Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever." I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain abhors discrepancies.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Umberto Eco

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Tyler Perry

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Trish Stratus

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

Rex Stout

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

Rex Stout

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

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!

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.

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 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.

Virginia Woolf

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Woody Allen

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.

William J. Clinton

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

Will Ferrell

You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.

Sarah Bernhardt

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.