Brains Quotes

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Money, Eyes, Research

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
Beth Ditto

Dad, Nose, Head

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
Arthur Smith

Find, Try, While

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
Zoe Saldana

Strange, Animal

You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Luciano Pavarotti

My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
Nathan Fillion

Women, Men, Different

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
Jaron Lanier

Good, Money, Else

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
Patricia Sun

Beauty, Great, Children

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson

Success, Hours, Reward

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.
Gillian Anderson

Funny, Tired, Serious

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Gloria Swanson

Person, Talent, Drive

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
Jo Nesbo

Crazy, Person, Mean

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
Tia Carrere

Beauty, Beautiful, Open

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence

Love, Head, Seem

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?
Emilio Estevez

Technology, Before, Why

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.
Joshua Foer

Book, Reading, Culture

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
Joshua Foer

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.
Mika Brzezinski

Women, Respect, Matter

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Time, Everybody, Test

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
Jack Black

Special, Acting, Else

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
Michael Shermer

Eyes, Video, Blank

When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
Rachel Roy

Young, Talk, Tell

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.
Cliff Richard

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
Ingrid Newkirk

Creative, Earth, Face

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
Julian Castro

Dreams, School, Help

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Ronald Biggs

Between, Guy, Difference

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
Ronald Biggs

Tea, Boy, Robbery

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. Bradley

Long, Cannot, Said

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
Ted Lindsay

Stupid, Realize, Managers

I swam my brains out.
Mark Spitz

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