Quotes of: Brain-damage Keyword

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different...

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

People rely on intelligence to solve problems, and they are naturally baffled when comprehension proves impotent to effect emotional change. To the neocortical brain, rich in the power of abstractions, understanding makes all the difference, but it d...

A General Theory of Love

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life intere...

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is mere...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add two more, the total will be six. That is logic. But behind this logic, there are underlying assumptions. Now, if somebody tells you, there are fo...

A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life

You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said quietly. "I hate being in my brain sometimes. I have to get out." "What do you do?" Amy asked. Dan shrugged "I g...

The Viper's Nest

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He has...

Winnie-the-Pooh

Sid: [Dragging a stick] Phew. I'm wiped out. Manfred: That's your shelter? Sid: Hey, you're a big guy, you got a lot of wood. I'm a little guy. Manfred: You got half a stick. Sid: Yes, but with this little stick and my highly-evolved brain... [accide...

Ice Age

Holy freaking crap. A suicide bomber just detonated a bomb in my brain,

Daynight

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Fight Club

The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

Brain Droppings

A healthy attitude is contagious; let others catch it.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Guilt is to your health as a thief is to your wealth.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

I am chic, sleek, and so unique.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Jerry Doyle

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Gillian Jacobs

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Helen Fisher

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain