Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

Ben Bernanke

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

Diane Ackerman

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Diane Ackerman

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

Demetri Martin

I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the person to look at it, and quietly in their brain, they can just put it together and say, "Cool, that one works".

Bob Dylan

It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.

Bob Dylan

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

Brie Larson

The experience of making a movie, you start to see it everywhere. It's just this amazing mechanism that your brain does because it just so badly wants to be helpful and keep all the information that you need as accessible as possible.

Brian Regan

It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.

Arthur Smith

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arjun Rampal

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Dido Armstrong

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Dick Cavett

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Dennis Lehane

She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

Dennis Miller

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

Denise Van Outen

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.

Deepak Chopra

Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.

Ed Speleers

A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

Eben Alexander

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Eben Alexander

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

Eben Alexander

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

Eben Alexander

Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings within it are ultimately going.

Elizabeth Moon

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Edgar Wright

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

Barbara Mertz

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Arthur Koestler

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Art Spiegelman

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

Barry Long

There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.