Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

Terry Pratchett

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

Terry Eagleton

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Terry Bradshaw

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Terence McKenna

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

Tom Piazza

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.

Simone Elkeles

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

Richard Branson

In the beginning it was just about the business - now it's about the brand.

Stephen Fry

One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

St. Jerome

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Sonya Hartnett

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Ruth Benedict

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

Roger Penrose

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

Roger Penrose

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Ray Kurzweil

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Robert Musil

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

Robert Pattinson

The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.

Voltaire

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

William Styron

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

Walter Scott

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Walter Dean Myers

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

Virginia Woolf

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Virginia Woolf

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Woody Allen

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.

William J. Clinton

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Will Ferrell

You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.

Sarah Bernhardt

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Sara Bareilles

Show me how big your brave is.

Samuel Rogers

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!

Winston Churchill

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Wendell Phillips

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.