Quotes of: Human-brain Keyword

Arif: [on the alien planet, Gora, along with other humans] Everybody speaks Turkish, I don't understand who is a Turk and who's not.

G.O.R.A.

Rob: You think sex is a basic human right? Marie De Salle: Hell yeah, yeah.

High Fidelity

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires. Claudia: How avant-garde.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Brand: You might have to decide between seeing your children again and the future of the human race.

Interstellar

Dave Boyle: Maybe some day you forget what it's like to be human and maybe then, it's ok.

Mystic River

Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

The Matrix

[about to be hung] Ulysses Everett McGill: It ain't the law! Sheriff Cooley: The law? The law is a human institution.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

David Mills: [Looking at the book list] "Of Human Bondage". Bondage? William Somerset: It's not what you think.

Se7en

Elinor Dashwood: [as her mother and sisters rant about Willoughby's many qualities] Is he human?

Sense and Sensibility

[Tristan is dazed just after returning to human form] Tristan: Victoria! Yvaine: I think I preferred "Mother".

Stardust

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Julian Baggini

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Pope Francis

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

Vicente Fox

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

Alex O'Loughlin

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Edward Thorndike

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

Huston Smith

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J. G. Ballard

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Kenneth R. Miller

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Shermer