Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

Jonathan Adelstein

These records can include some of the most private personal information about an individual. Finding out who people are calling and for how long can be like picking someone's brain about their friends, plans or business dealings.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

The brain of an 18-year-old college freshman is still far from resembling the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. When do we reach adulthood? It might be much later than we traditionally think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.

The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had is gone. It's been destroyed. And the doctor was right for 20 years. She did nothing to speak of.

The brain can reroute its signals and rewire itself.

The brain breaks down into little islands that can't talk to one another.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

That's when I found out it was a tumor, and that he had fluid on the brain, which was building up and that's why he couldn't walk. You never think your child has a brain tumor. That's not something you entertain.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention.

Louis L'Amour

What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i

E. P. Thompson

We found that the frontal lobes were the last to develop. These brain regions control inhibition, rash actions, rage and anger.

We kind of went brain dead for 10 seconds in a 2-2 game.

The virus would hit this mutant cell and cause a second mutation, prompting the onset of cancers like leukemia or brain tumors.

These are urgent questions because we're talking about a lot of children and a tremendously disabling brain disease, which really robs a child and a family of the personhood of this child.

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.

Jeff Probst

We sit around and brainstorm all the time, even in our off period, ... We're always asking: What if? What If? What if?

We've been surprised to find out how malleable the brain is.

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.

is one of the leading candidates for explaining how the changes we see in the brains of schizophrenics might have come about.

I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain.

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).

What is very clear is that there is a correlation between brain size and intelligence, particularly verbal ability.

Eric Chavez

We got lucky. They had a brain cramp, and the rest of the game we were playing with house money.

Aesop

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church

The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices. This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice. When men hear a male voice they process it in the 'mind's eye.' This is the part of the brain where people compare their experiences to themselves, so the man is comparing his own voice to the new voice.

Sathya Baba

The fault is in the mirror that reflects, the mind that perceives, the brain that infers. What the mirror presents as true has no authenticity. The mirror is coated with dust and its face is not plain at all. God has no maya; He has no intention or need to delude, nor does He will that it should happen.