Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Mark Twain

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Muhammad Ali

We can't be brave without fear.

Margot Asquith

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

Nicholas Brendon

My brain is just always going and going and going.

Nicholas Hoult

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

Ned Vizzini

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Ned Vizzini

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Nathan Parsons

Be brave enough to create.

Nadine Gordimer

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Haile Gebrselassie

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

H. P. Lovecraft

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

George Herbert

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Candice Swanepoel

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

Buzz Aldrin

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Janet Evanovich

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

Pamela Stephenson

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Julia Phillips

Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.

Julia Quinn

He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.

Julia Quinn

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

Leonard Shlain

Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

Paul Giamatti

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

Leon Kass

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Learned Hand

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Joe Meno

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Joe Namath

I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.

Jodi Picoult

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

Jodi Picoult

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

John Green

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

John Green

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

P. G. Wodehouse

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Ovid

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Ovid

God himself favors the brave.