Rain Quotes - Page 84

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.