Famous Quotes & Sayings

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To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Dorothea Benton Frank

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Donal Henahan

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Dan Harris

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Clint Eastwood

When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

Drew Goddard

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

David Perlmutter

Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.

David Perlmutter

Carbs are devastating for the brain.

David Perlmutter

Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they didn’t have documented until now are the instigators of that inflammation—the first missteps that prompt this deadly reaction. And what they are finding is that gluten, and a high-carbohydrate diet for that matter, are among the most prominent stimulators of inflammatory pathways that reach the brain.

David Letterman

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

Dinara Safina

It’s my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I’m not using my brain, I’m not doing the things my coach is telling me.

Dino De Laurentiis

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

Deepak Chopra

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

Dean Falk

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

Alfred de Vigny

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Andy Weir

My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.

Amy Clampitt

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

Angel Olsen

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

Andrew Weil

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

Christopher Moore

What this movie needs is more brain eating zombies.

Christopher Moore

No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

Angelina Jolie

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.

Anna Kendrick

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.

Andrew Solomon

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Anthony Hopkins

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Anthony Hopkins

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Amy Poehler

Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

Alison Gopnik

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Alison McGhee

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

Aesop

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Aesop

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Roger Williams

While the brain is working, you go on trying, ... Life depends on the brain function and that is still working. He's just desperately ill man in (intensive care) and we struggle on.