Quotes of: Brain Keyword

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Warren Ellis

A Man can Live two Weeks without Food, go two days without Water, and two minutes without Air, and apparently, an entire lifetime without a BRAIN.

Walter Thomas Jr

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Zadie Smith

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

John Frusciante

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

Jack Nance

-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your childhood, in their entirety, would you want to see them? -Absolutely. Right this very second. -But why? Don't you think some of the tapes would be ver...

The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness

Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used to dominate everyday existence, at a time when fa...

Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

It's the strangest feeling at the end of pregnancy: you look down at this huge belly and try to imagine how some little person, whom you haven't even met, is going to emerge from it any day and completely change your lives. First, you wonder how this...

What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.

Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind— As if my Brain had split— I tried to match it—Seam by Seam— But could not make it fit.

The Complete Poems

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.

Correspondence

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World

When it comes to seeing opportunities in the midst of unhopeful situations, the positive brain, (not the pair of eyes) is the sense organ for the sight.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Wrong, asshole. Your body makes you male. Your brain and your heart—big and strong as ever—they make you a man.

In Dark Woods

This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the "Adam Project.

Eve & Adam

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

An Essay on Criticism

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains leaked out. Instead, I did nothing.

Entangled

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

The Education of the Stoic

No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.

Fight Club

Hooters McHoulihan, let's get the fuck out of here. This G-string is so far up my ass, it's making my brain hurt," Jane grumbled

Fashionably Dead in Diapers