Brain Quotes

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
Cate Blanchett

Life, Work, Good

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Carlos Santana

Hear, Songs, Tattoos

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
Phyllis McGinley

Her, She, Intuition

In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
Conan O'Brien

Help, Said, Whatever

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Love, Art, School

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar

Love, True, Different

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono

Human, Far, Activity

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
Karl Lagerfeld

My father was all brain and little heart.
Stephen Fry

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

Knowledge, Science, Fact

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.
Sienna Miller

Love, Good, Decisions

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
Danica McKellar

Mind, Gym, Math

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
David Eagleman

Single, Stars, Makes

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion

Balance, Golf, Perfection

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville

Either, Hands, Grief

Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

Morality, Weakness

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner

Different, Language, Content

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
Anna Quindlen

Sunday, Through, Write

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Staley

Pain, Made, Suffering

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.
Willie Aames

God, Heart, Daily

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
Fred Durst

Best, Enemy, Friend

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar

Life, Great, Smart

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier

Time, Beautiful, Writing

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio

Forward, Start, Body

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
Shirley MacLaine

School, Heart, Through

I beat a brain tumor.
Arlen Specter

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Bernard Baruch

Yourself, Serve, Separate

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard

Love, Heart, Filling

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen

War, Start, Both

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge, Small, Large

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Brain Definition

Arthur Balfour

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us