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Brain Quotes

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

– Lou Gramm

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

– Jeff Hawkins

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player’s uniform. It’s the brain’s natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

– Jacqueline Leo

Even when I don’t think I’m writing, I’m writing. There’s some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it’s collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that’s when they come out.

– Jeff Tweedy

I’m not saying writing comedy’s brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It’s the equivalent of doing homework that’s going to end up on national television.

– Miranda Hart

Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don’t want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, ‘What do I want to wear?’ and, ‘What do I want to do with Topshop?’ It all kind of leads into the other things.

– Kate Moss

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What’s there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

– John Dobbin

I was never really sure what I wanted to do – I’m in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

– Jerry Doyle

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.

– Lyall Watson

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

– Joshua Jackson

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don’t have that much time on my hands. I don’t have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

– Lola Kirke

I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn’t satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain – the darker, murkier side!

– Kevin Barry

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

– Keith Henson

Most women say ‘Please speak to me from the waist up: my brain, my eyes.’

– Kellyanne Conway

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

– Jack Nance

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort – good food or junk food – and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

– Lorrie Moore

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I’ve got a brain; I don’t want to just sit at home – I want to do as much as I can.

– Louise Nurding

My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.

– Kehlani

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

– Michio Kaku

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

– Mike Tyson

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

– John Eccles

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

– Leonardo da Vinci

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn’t yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

– Michael J. Fox

I think that women like to use different parts of their brain and their hands. And I think that cooking allows you to do that.

– Kathleen Flinn

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

– Miguel de Cervantes

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

– John Eccles

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

– Katarina Johnson-Thompson

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I’m always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain – or else you’ll never keep at them.

– Lisa Edelstein

I can explain my body and my brain, but there’s something more. I can’t explain my own existence – what makes me a unique human being.

– John Eccles

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

– Lyall Watson

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