Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Molly Harper

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

Molly Ivins

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

George Herbert

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

Horace Greeley

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Homer

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

Roger Craig Smith

If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

If I had a brain in my head I'd quit right now. I'm not going to be as good a coach next year.

Sam Snead

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food. I guess because there's so much dolphin in it, and you know how smart they are.

John O'Keefe

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

Barbara Bush

I feel a little like the scarecrow in the 'Wizard of Oz' who suddenly discovers he had a brain all along. He just didn't have a piece of paper to prove it,

He's not in good shape. The brain started swelling and they were inducing a coma.

Eminem

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

Hippocrates

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

Hillary Clinton

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

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.

By taking shallow breaths, you get less oxygen to your brain making you feel tired. Take five minutes to breathe as deeply as you can instead.

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,

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.

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).

Frank Robinson

I just wanted to pick his brain a little bit.

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.

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

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.

It was such a fluid motion, from the brain to the heart to the hands to the feet with the pedals, that the nanosecond that he thought it, it came out with no interruption and his and he played from the heart.