Cerebral Quotes - Page 4

• Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "The Joys of Losing". jewishworldreview.com. April 23, 2010.

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• In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting). These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous.

  Hans Arp

  Reality, Order, Color

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• As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.

  Davey Havok

  Knowing, Interesting, Preparation

  Southern Courier, "The Daily Telegraph" Newspaper, February 2010.

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• The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Wise, Baby, Race

  Ellen Gilchrist (2008). “A Dangerous Age: A Novel”, p.11, Algonquin Books

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• Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

  George L. Carlson

  Photography, Littles, Intensity

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• I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Thinking, Stuff, Goofy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always approached the sport from a more cerebral, analytical point of view, a management perspective. I was taking all business classes there at Georgetown, I really enjoyed that. I always sort of looked at football from that perspective.

  Pete Lembo

  Sports, Football, Class

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.

  Graham Foust

  Fire, Missing, Mind

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• My mother on her death bed told me, 'Where the hell did that kangaroo come from!?' - it just popped out of nowhere and punched her in the head and caused a cerebral hemorrhage, so I thought I'd move to a country where there were no kangaroos!

  Colin Mochrie

  Country, Mother, Moving

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• The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

  Lea Salonga

  Appreciation, Doe, Needs

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• Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.

  Oliver Sacks

  Blood, Practice, Long

  Oliver Sacks (2012). “Hallucinations”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

  Nellie McKay

  Desire, Needs, Communicate

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Mother, Children, Curves

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2004.

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• There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

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• I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

  Audrey Tautou

  Photography, Writing, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Science, Isis

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Thomas H. Huxley (2013). “Man's Place in Nature”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

  Daniel Dennett

  Memories, Long, Typical

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1998). “Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds”, p.137, MIT Press

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• My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

  Aleister Crowley

  Quality, Chance, Nervous

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• My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

  Orlando Bloom

  People, Creative, Feelings

  "Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis Interview SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 25, 2011.

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• My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.

  Michael Light

  Eye, Passion, Views

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Littles, Ships

  "Lauryn Hill on Integrity". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• You know how some people have gay-dar? I have fat-dar. I can automatically tell if you're fat or not. And I also have cerebral-palsy-dar.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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• The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing. In the past, and well until today, some South American countries have had a great neuropharmacological history, since the natives' times. It is necessary that we remind ourselves of the many licit and illicit drugs that were generated in our continent and that act on the brain.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Country, Past, Drug

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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