Quotes of: Brain-cells Keyword

..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;

Brains: A Zombie Memoir

The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Coming Up for Air

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Bob Ehrlich

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

Richard Dreyfuss

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

1Q84

When you have the same dream over and over again, your brain is trying to solve a problem. It knows there's an answer.

Academy 7

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

When had she moved so close? Her brain screamed at her to back away. She would regret this. She already regretted this.

All That Glitters

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

The Alloy of Law

My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.

Hunter's Prayer

As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.

How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

How the Mind Works

Sometimes you had a better shot with a jury, that body of ones “peers” who make decisions with their emotional brains; especially if your client was guilty.

HOA Wire

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

A politician is a person whose brain is as jiggly as Jell-O, only not as intelligent.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Inferno

There were so many viciously sarcastic ways to respond, Jaden’s brain was temporarily paralyzed due to witty comeback overload.

Jaden Baker

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

Red Rider's Hood

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

The Return of Merlin