Rain Quotes - Page 9

The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value.

The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.