Quotes of: Brain-power Keyword

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.

Bernhard von Bulow

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.

Bob Latta

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

Carl Honore

Two forces, fear and power,come together at a place called BEGIN. Bust through the fear to get to the power and BEGIN the life you are entitled to live.

Toni Sorenson

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

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

Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.

Fangirl

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

Hitler Burns Detroit

The communication between the brain and the heart is a two-way dialogue.

The Heart of Consciousness: A Brief Introduction to Heart Intelligence

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

The Bone Clocks