Brain Quotes - Page 21

• There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Three, Kind, Explanation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.73, Race Point Publishing

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• Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

  Hasso Plattner

  Kids, Hot, Stoves

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• It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

  Darrell Hammond

  Fun, Siege, Has Beens

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Use, Imagine, Accomplish

  "Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

  Ani DiFranco

  Summer, Nice, Thinking

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• The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

  Daniel Goleman

  Art, Emotional, Symbolic Meaning

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.314, Bantam

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• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Errors, Opponents, Source

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• Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, People, Feel Good

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• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Feelings, Playing Music

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• The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.

  Jessicka

  Beautiful, Religious, Intelligent

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• It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex

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• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
  Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Weakness, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

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• Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

  Michael Botticelli

  People, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

  Gilles Deleuze

  Eye, Body

  Gilles Deleuze (2013). “Cinema I: The Movement-Image”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

  Eddie Izzard

  Helping, Said, Cases

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Dark, Lasers, Energy

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

  Richard Jeni

  Success, Two, Luck

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• An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

  Walt Whitman

  Reality, Space, Daguerreotypes

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• Some people have constipation of the brain but their mouth has the runs.

  Dane Cook

  Running, People, Mouths

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 03, 2014

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• The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. 
  (to a Liverpool trainee)

  Bill Shankly

  Son, England, Problem

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• Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

  Claudine Andre

  Intelligent, May, Size

  "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Tvs, Film

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Opening Up, Skulls

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.

  Tinsel Korey

  Independent, Emotional, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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