Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Thome

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Lois Lowry

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Lou Gramm

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

John Goodman

Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

John Flanagan

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.

Jonathan Lethem

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Franzen

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

Andy Cohen

America's top reality star villains, vixens, players and haters who have made their mark on pop culture will use Bravo as their tell-all platform in this unprecedented reunion special.

All of the branches will end up getting a makeover in their general circulation area.

Barbara Bush

All the brave men and women we recognize today brought credit to the uniform and honor to the United States of America,

Ella Wilcox

And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

Edward Boyden

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Edward Boyden

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

Dick Cheney

The men and women who serve today can know that they have the complete confidence of the commander-in-chief, and the respect of the entire nation, ... They know, too, that they follow a long and unbroken line of brave Americans who came to the defense of freedom.

Jennette McCurdy

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Hermann Hesse

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

John Hagee

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.

John Engler

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Joel Kinnaman

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

Garry Kasparov

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Garry Kasparov

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Gabriela Sabatini

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

The main thing I'm trying to sell him on is to go out there mentally ready. Jump start the brain.

The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from companies...The only way for someone to own U.K. stock trading is to own the LSE.

Noel Redding

The LSD situation is only a catalyst to the brain, as the brain has all that stuff anyway, because it's the subconscious that comes out.

The Lives of the Saints' is brand new here. It's a premiere.

Bob Hartley

The league is sending a clear-cut message: We want a great brand of hockey, we want it to be exciting. I think we've reached that goal so far in the season and incidents where there will be an intent to injure or there will be an injury, there will be a price to play.

The lead up to the Fed meeting was that we are going to be done soon, they are going to put the brakes on, and that fueled the momentum. But now people are realizing that they aren't done yet, and that's shifted the psychology.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Mahatma Gandhi

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.