Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Daniels

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

Joshua Bolten

You know, she's a very gracious and funny person. I was racking my brain trying to think of something specific.

Matthieu Ricard

Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain

Mark Russell

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

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.

The consequences (of pediatric brain injury) are devastating.

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.

Telecommuting isn't brain surgery. It's very easy to implement, but it's breaking down the barriers.

T. S. Eliot

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

Pamela Stephenson

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Julia Quinn

He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.

Julia Quinn

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

Leonard Shlain

Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

Leon Kass

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Margot Asquith

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

Nicholas Brendon

My brain is just always going and going and going.

Nicholas Hoult

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

Ned Vizzini

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Ned Vizzini

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Nadine Gordimer

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Powell Clayton

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

Nellie McKay

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

Neil Tennant

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

Newt Gingrich

Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately.

Noam Chomsky

The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.

Joe McNally

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

Joe Namath

I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.