Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Diana Gabaldon

I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.

Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.

I'm recruiting my brains out. We're going to turn over all the stones to get them.

I'm recruiting my brains out. I'm turning over all the stones.

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

Dean Wilson

I'm trying to hit a little cut, and I guess at the last second my brain bails out and I go left. Maybe I should have taken a little more time after I see Charles hit it in there.

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.

Not enough health workers are being trained or recruited where they are most needed and increasing numbers are joining a brain drain of qualified professionals who are migrating to better paid jobs in richer countries.

Joss Whedon

It's very sweet to mention the word sequel, ... Obviously that's the way my brain works. It continues to tell stories. So it's inevitable for me that I do that, and of course I love this universe. I love these people, and I would jump at the chance to do it again.

It's tough for us with a 3-year-old to understand that, but we're not discouraged. They're telling us other families experience the same thing, and it's just going to take a while for his brain to realize that sound is coming in. It's a different feeling than what we expected.

Brian Dopirak

I try to pick his brain as much as I can. Any chance I get, I try to talk to him.

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.

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

They have to understand this Nokomis team is a great offensive rebounding team. It's not brain surgery. You just have to do things fundamentally to keep them off the boards.

There's one point where I play the piano upside down. When I first did that, I hit my head and it really hurt. But people were laughing, so we've kept it in ever since. I probably have severe brain damage.

The transition to go to school is easier for younger children, ... Once you start puberty, the transition gets tough, since now the brain tells you to stay up later, but parents and school tell you to get up earlier.

We've really had a good second half of the season. Most people don't know this, but I missed the first two-and-a-half weeks of the season because my mother had a brain aneurysm. We used Christmas break as my preseason. We worked hard putting things in. That's when they really started to learn my system. Things started clicking. We started competing and then lately we've learned how to win. Hopefully that will continue.

Don Cooper

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

Ashley Montagu

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

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.

Dalai Lama

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Dalai Lama

Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.

Dalai Lama

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

Greg Walden

I have trouble, my little brain can't understand, how it's OK to slaughter the fish?

I have to turn my brain off from my Richmond duties to driving that car, which is pretty therapeutic for me.

I rack my brains to come up with something, ... It's hard.

I had been teaching all day when I found out. My brain was not working. I was very surprised because I had already won twice, and didn't think it would happen a third time. I really feel honored to be respected as a leader in the teaching community and also in my community at large.

If there was no brain damage, I would have expected him to wake up at this point.

I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like to kind of still use my brain instead of just running around with the kids.

Michael Waltrip

I ran out of brains with about five to go and hit the wall a couple of times. I just saw Kurt and wanted to win so bad. I'd rather mess up trying. I did all I could.

Arjen Robben

I put my brains in neutral and told myself 'I will make it, ... A weight has dropped from our shoulders.

If you do not have brains you have legs.