Quotes of: Brain-cells Keyword

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Bryson

Gain knowledge and feed your brain so you can obtain the strength that is needed to break free.

Life

I consider a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Life

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

Love

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladimir Putin

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Albert Pike

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Ezra Koenig

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

Edna O'Brien

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

Joshua Jackson

I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin ...

Gone Girl

And then he heard Mad-Eye Moody’s voice, echoing in some distant chamber of his empty brain: Harry bent his knees obediently, preparing to spring. Why, though? Another voice had awoken in the back of his brain. Stupid thing to do, really, said the ...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready to be stopped. We don't have *time* to be ready to...

The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

What we're doing, or, I should say, what doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters. Tie them up just long enough to slip an instruction past. ...

Lexicon

The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening. I know that my brain is composed of a cerebrum, a cerebellum, and a medulla oblongata, but these are just words. I know that electrical i...

Q

Alan Turing: Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? W...

The Imitation Game

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

Cleopatra: A Life

While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.

The Deadwalk

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life.

The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain

The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.

The End of Time : The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

The Face on the Milk Carton