Cerebral Quotes

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Freedom, Laziness, Criticism

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.
Liz Phair

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.
Len Wein

Thought, Place, Rather

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
Tom DeLonge

Men, Best, Moving

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson

Mind, Minds, Occupied

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
Scott Weiland

Emotional, Creative, Artist

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks

Less, Reading, Almost

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri Bergson

Place, Sense, Themselves

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Deep, Down

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
Bill Keller

Time, Business, Heart

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.
Curtis Joseph

Life, Money, Help

I like the cerebral process.
Charlaine Harris

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
Rita Coolidge

Sense, Seems, Jazz

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
Natalia Vodianova

Home, Mother, Child

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
Bill Lee

Sports, Mind, Start

The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'
Jason Gann

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
Chris Patten

Politics, Goes, Anybody

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.
Chris Pine

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
Oscar Peterson

Trying, Play, Try

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
Richard Griffiths

Feeling, Might, Though

What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
Kal Penn

Love, Creative, While

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.
Charles Cumming

Find, American, Service

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