Brain Quotes - Page 54

If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

My brain? It's my second favorite organ!

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

To ask the hard question is simple.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!

I think the most important thing that marijuana does is it affects the brain.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.