Quotes of: Brain Keyword

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperrelig...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

The Happiest Man in The World The French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama, former academic and dedicated meditator Matthieu Ricard, came into the spotlight in the field of neural science after being named “the happiest man in the world”. Natur...

Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

We were in such good moods, we even decided to hit Todd's house for candy. Sam rang the doorbell, and when it opened, this hideous, rubber monster face roared at us. Sam screamed. Todd started laughing and took off the mask. I yelled, "Put it back on...

A Match Made in High School

Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly. When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That’s the question. I’ve been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the...

Unknown

In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitar...

Tom Wolfe

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

The City of Devi

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one.

Cursed

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...

The Death Cure

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Don Quixote

Simon's brain tried to comprehend the situation. 'Was an international supermodel really holding Doc Gutson, leader of the infamous Bloodworth Gang, captive?

Doc Gutson's Revenge

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

Empire of the Ants

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

East of Eden

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

I can’t help but think,’ Park would say during taekwando. ‘I can’t turn off my brain.

Eleanor & Park

Let a woman too close, and while she sucked your cock, she sucked your brains and manhood right out of you, too.

Eternal Rider

Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved—or not quite evolved enough—to bear the awful burden of its own existence.

The Final Descent

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Galápagos

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

The House at Pooh Corner

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Handle with Care

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Breakfast of Champions

He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.

Bite Club