Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Nye

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bill Maher

You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.

Bill Watterson

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

Bob Harper

Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain.

Betty Friedan

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease.

We feel that results of our tests represent an important first step understanding the complex relationships between aging, brain structure and cognitive performance. The brain can be very plastic in how it re-directs pathways and functions in response to circumstances.

John Powell

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

William Shakespeare

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

William Shakespeare

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Charlie Sheen

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

Charlie Sheen

I blinked and I cured my brain.

Charlie Sheen

You can't process me with a normal brain.

Konrad Lorenz

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Katherine Parkinson

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Jami Attenberg

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

C. S. Lewis

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

(The program) covers the brain and spinal cord injuries, being safe at school, being safe around buses. It also talks about water safety, how you always check to see how deep it is before you dive in, and about weapons, such as guns and knives.

Carter Burwell

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

Aimee Mann

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Bruce Barton

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

Brit Marling

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Arthur Conan Doyle

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Ashley Montagu

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

Brian Henson

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Jane Goodall

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.

Charles Bukowski

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.