Brain Quotes - Page 64

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

My father was all brain and little heart.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.