Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

(Wednesday), it was OK, we managed to chat a bit. This morning, things got worse, he had a brain hemorrhage. The doctors are not giving any prognosis.

We are always fascinated when the brain goes haywire.

A. A. Milne

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

A. A. Milne

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

A. A. Milne

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

Agatha Christie

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

Agatha Christie

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

Agatha Christie

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Ada Lovelace

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

Aleksandar Hemon

One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

Aleksandar Hemon

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

There is a very real brain component to addiction, and society up to now has for the most part has viewed it as failure of will.

Karl Pilkington

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

Boomer Esiason

The question is do they have a conscience? ... I don't know what part of the brain controls that part.

Those organs, for the most part, have recuperated. He's an extremely strong young man. It's a miracle he survived, no doubt about it. I've never seen anything like this, and we deal with brain injuries every day.

Tissue loss follows T-cell loss, meaning that people with poor immune function also show severe brain damage. This was a revelation. We used to consider these separate phenomena, because HIV harms the brain and immune system in different ways. Now we see they are intrinsically linked.

This study confirms that dyslexic children can be typically smart and can have strong IQs. The reading disability is not a global effect on entire brain function.

Kris Jenner

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

Ezra Koenig

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Samantha Fox

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

Duane Chapman

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

Barry Zito

I think as they all get a little more comfortable, I think they'll all start picking my brain a bit. I'm open to all that.

Alan Arkin

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Mark Cuban

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

Corliss Lamont

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

When you eat chocolate, it can release certain chemicals in the brain that improve serotonin levels to help us feel good, help us feel calm.

Hayao Miyazaki

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

The reason they need to do that is to pick their brain on what they know about the family and all they know about the family because after they die, then you lose that resource totally.

Elyn Saks

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

Alexandre Dumas

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Doug Stanhope

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

Bill Lee

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.