Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you have a comfortable life then you're going to become a nice sort of couch potato, and just take it in and be brain dead.

Jack LaLanne

The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.

J. D. Salinger

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

Jack Black

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

J. B. Smoove

I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

Isabel Allende

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

Gerald Edelman

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Gerald Edelman

A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

He's ready when he's ready, I don't want to kill a brain cell thinking about it.

Gwen Davis

I'm using a part of my brain that I haven't used since school, learning the French grammar.

I'll definitely be picking the brains of a few guys here to see what their game plan is (against particular hitters).

Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Frank Robinson

I just wanted to pick his brain a little bit.

I read a study from Harvard that said for the brain to memorize muscle movement, it needed time to sink in. In the practice field, you can control the environment and focus everything on what you're doing.

His brain damage actually washed away his brain.

Ted Stevens

But I could have told you even then, we all knew, he was a fantastic lawyer, just a fantastic brain and capability, and that's what we need on the court,

Eva Braun

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying good-by to me.

David Perlmutter

Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.

Johnny Damon

But we don't think. If we use our brains, we're only hurting the team.

They said they loved seeing theater and sitting on the grass on the waterfront as long as it's well done. The hour we decided to do 'Crowns' is the hour we wanted to talk to Sharon. She has the energy, the brains and the presence for this show.

Driving is done 90 percent through visual cues, and when eyes are taken off the road, the brain cannot respond in time.

Five different brains going at the same time it's easy to get sidetracked, but being on the same level is what brought us this far.

Neil Young

At our school, we deal with kids who have brain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, things like that. I'm very familiar with that. So I was thinking of not being able to do what I do. It didn't freak me out. It just made me think: Now you've got to play this card. Now you're going to do what you can, in the time that you have.

Doctors will purposely keep his pressure in his brain under control by heavily sedating him so as not to raise the pressure and make the swelling worse.

Ryan Doumit

Cota is a great player and we've got a good rapport. I learned a lot from him. I pick his brains because he's been there. He's been real supportive.

Corey is a better defender at this stage than Bruce was, but it's all about finding your niche in the NBA. The Spurs fell in love with Bruce because of his commitment to defense. Bruce grew up watching Michael Cooper play for the Lakers, and he used to pick my brain about what kind of player Cooper was.

Cooling the brain is sort of putting it down to sleep a little bit.

Donald Trump

I use my brain as a playground, not as a calendar.

David Perlmutter

Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

Gillian Anderson

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

John Updike

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Brain tumor patients tend to suffer a lot of cancer symptoms even after therapy,

Brain research shows the brain has more capacity to learn in the first five years than in the entire rest of a person's life,