Brain Quotes - Page 94

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced "seeg," I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing.

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. With these abstract pictures, although the eye recognizes them as photographic rather than painted, the eye also tries to connect them to reality. There's always this association machine working in the brain, and that is why it is important to me that they are actually photographic and not painted.

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

He was not so much brain as earwax

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.

You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them