Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Markram

I was always interested in curing the brain.

Henry Mayhew

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Henry Louis Gates

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

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.

James D. Watson

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

James Gleick

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Jeaniene Frost

Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No doubt he was mentally salting and peppering Don.

Jerry Lee Lewis

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

Jerry Lee Lewis

These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

Jeff Bezos

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Jim Goldberg

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

Jerry Saltz

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Jeffrey Kluger

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Jean Houston

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

Jacqueline Wilson

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

Gary Busey

Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.

Gilbert Gottfried

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

George Washington

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

George Washington

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

George Washington

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Jim Carrey

Come back here so that I may brain thee!

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

George R. R. Martin

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

George Carlin

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

George Carlin

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Gail Tsukiyama

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.