Famous Quotes & Sayings

The consequences (of pediatric brain injury) are devastating.

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.

Does it matter if someone's doing brain surgery without a license? ... Chances are, they'll (the patient) have their brain put in backwards.

That means that at the end of the day, you have a brain that costs you more energy. That's where sleep would kick in.

(Talking about Britain's school education) They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.

Martin Seligman

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

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

It really does change their mental health. The more the two sides of the brain are communicating together, the more pleasant you feel, the more peaceful you feel, the more you feel connected to people around you. The more one side of the brain is dominant over the other, the more you feel angry, sad and disconnected.

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

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.

It's something that I've been really excited about for the past week. I've kind of picked the brains of some friends on other teams - 'Who did you vote for, what's going on?' - and I had a good feeling about it, but you never know. There's a lot of deserving guys who don't get in.

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.

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.

If you do not have brains you have legs.

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.

Woodrow Wilson

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

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.

Buzz Aldrin

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Janet Evanovich

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

Jane McGonigal

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.

Erin Morgenstern

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

Kirsten Vangsness

On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.

Eva Amurri

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

Haile Gebrselassie

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

H. P. Lovecraft

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

Mindy Kaling

Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.

In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.