Quotes of: Brain-damage Keyword

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

Salvatore Scibona

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

Wisdom

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.

Life

I wish our brains could ‘hunger’, like our tummies do

Motivational

Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!

Love

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

William Howard Taft

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

Bruce Feiler

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

Win Butler

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

She’s wild, unpredictable and dangerous as hell. Not just to my sanity, but to my health. She’s the kind of girl you know you’ll want forever with and forever will still not be enough. But she’s not the type of girl to give forever to you wil...

Damaged

Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I know when to step out of their way. It's the ones that hold the anger in, the men that think about what they do and how they do it, that scare me. They...

Dare You To

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He ...

Eumeswil

Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I’ll ...

Embrace the Night

Shit is fucked up when it comes to appearances and women. We’re expected to be hot - but if we are, we’re vain and stupid. And if we’re not hot we’re useless. Kind of hard to get around. But we’re not stupid. We know that we’re doing dama...

Full Frontal Feminism

... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively shared belief-systems. It is derived from primitive ide...

The Ghost in the Machine

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy tha...

In the Body of the World

I saw on his face a glimpse of his past. The damage, the unhappiness and the pain, and I wondered what kind of skeletons he has been hiding and for how long. It’s one of those mutual attraction moments that are unexplainable, but as real as anythin...

I See The Devil

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty...

The Indigo Spell

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but i...

Into the Wild

For Saffron," it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn't matter. She hugged Rose and Indigo and Caddy and Sarah, and said again and aga...

Saffy's Angel