Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Wendie Malick

She (Nina) really is the queen of non sequiturs ... There are a lot of missing links in this woman's brain,

Neuroscience researchers have made important discoveries that will help keep our brains functioning optimally,

Brian Billick

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

Emily Oster

My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Andrew Lawrence

A teenager's early experimentation might be minor, but it can still have a damaging effect on their developing brain,

As we learn more and more about the teenage brain, which tells us that teenagers brains are not fully developed, and that might be part of the reason why they are prone to take more risks and not make good, sound judgement calls, and it may simply be because part of their brains have not fully developed. And there was a study done at Temple University that goes into greater detail on that.

Bill White

The most controversial discussions are the ones we should raise around this (table) because this is where we have the most brains gathered.

Jeff Mathis

It's exciting to be in the big leagues and be playing at this level, but to be playing on a team like this is even more exciting. With Salmon and Erstad and some of those guys who have been around a while, they know how to play the game. I just try to hang around and pick their brains and do the things that they do.

(Talking about Britain's school education) They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.

Peter Kenyon

It must be within the brains of all of us to find a solution.

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.

It's something that I've been really excited about for the past week. I've kind of picked the brains of some friends on other teams - 'Who did you vote for, what's going on?' - and I had a good feeling about it, but you never know. There's a lot of deserving guys who don't get in.

George Crabbe

Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, / And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

The world is not the same as it used to be. Companies pay for skills in an era where brains are more important than brawn, and the forces of automation, globalization, deregulation and competition have changed what this kind of work is worth in the world.

We seem to have those types of innings every game. We went brain-dead there in the second inning.

Anna Chancellor

I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.

Bill Lee

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

John Jay

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

When people see a wheelchair victim, people seem to think you've lost your brain. I need people to see that I hurt my neck, but I didn't hurt my brain.

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!

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.

Peter Sallis

They're like a family of two. They could be not quite brothers but could be father and son in a sort of way. And there's the charming fact that Gromit doesn't speak, and Gromit, of course, is the brains of the family.

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

Sam Snead

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

Five different brains going at the same time it's easy to get sidetracked, but being on the same level is what brought us this far.

is one of the leading candidates for explaining how the changes we see in the brains of schizophrenics might have come about.

I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain.