Top 342 Brains Quotes

It’s not telepathy. It’s not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
I wouldn’t have raced a horse. But you’ll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he’s one of my heroes, so I’m not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They’re highly unreliable, and they’ve got brains the size of golf balls.
Sebastian Coe
Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it… every step of the way is mind over matter… We override our brains all the time.
Deepak Chopra
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Lewis Thomas
Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions – addiction, depression.
Drew Pinsky
I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.
Sonny Sandoval
I think we find that it’s most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.
Joe Russo
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten
All you’ve got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it’s good acting.
Paddy Considine
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There’s not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.
James Dobson
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
John Eccles
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.
Bruce Feiler
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf
I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There’s a little ugly girl inside of me going ‘Yay! I’m a sex symbol!’
Marina Sirtis
Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.
Ryan Paevey
My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.
Liz Vassey
Positive and engaged brains are a company’s greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.
Shawn Achor
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
At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
Gary Johnson
I’ve been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music but the attitude.
Shavo Odadjian
I’m not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It’s vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.
Anna Chancellor
People don’t always realize that as a performer, you’ve got to relive those moments. Memories crash through your brains, and you’ve got to think about your past and the reason why you wrote the song. All that emotion comes back.
Benjamin Clementine
I always said, even in Developmental, ‘Yeah, I’m the beauty and all that. I’m the hot one, the sexy one – but I also have the brains and the strength to back it up.’ So, that was my biggest thing.
Mandy Rose
It was all about the ring. That’s where you got your brains shook and the money took.
Joe Frazier
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence
I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.
Lil Jon
I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I’m like Shania Twain with that stuff: That don’t impress me much. I’ll take wit and brains over the ability to carry a tune any day.
Julie Klausner
It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.
Ann McKee
I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it’s not just about using our brains.
Hope Jahren
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they’re not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
Daniel Tammet
Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries – the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don’t think those countries have better brains.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.
David H. Murdock
I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.
John Rzeznik
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
Jane Goodall
Everything good and bad about technology would be magni

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?
Ramez Naam
People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.
Aditya Roy Kapur
People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That’s not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.
Mark Henry
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
Keith Barry
I’m gonna bring Bad Brains vibes ‘cos that’s what I do.
Ty Dolla Sign
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
Ato Boldon
More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
Jeffrey Kluger
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn’t define you as a person. Rather, it’s an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
I love high-performance technologies, the stuff that’s the brains of today’s products, and AMD was one of the few companies that had this type of technology. I always believed that it was a company that had great technical capability but needed better business focus.
Lisa Su
I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
Just as our bodies need to be exercised, so, perhaps, do our brains.
Sheila Hancock
Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around with five pound brains, allowing them insights that we can’t imagine.
Seth Shostak
Alok Verma cannot be sacked based on the Central Vigilance Commission’s (CVC) report without being heard. PM Modi should not listen to bogus legal brains.
Subramanian Swamy
I guess different brains work in different ways.
Pete Docter
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
Mem Fox
For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains – we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.
Jenna Wortham
When I was 15, I decided to take up the sport seriously, so I went down to the Y.M.C.A. My first day there, this little Italian guy beat my brains out. I decided to quit. Then I realized I really wanted to be a fighter. I worked at it, went back, and that little Italian guy didn’t beat me up no more.
Gerry Cooney
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips
I was always intrigued by management and I wish I could turn the clock back and pick the brains of each of my managers.
Jimmy Bullard
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
Jeff Hawkins
When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will we then decide that death may well be an act of kindness?
Barkha Dutt
I don’t think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.
Michael Gurian
Taking someone else’s language and fitting it into your own speech – you learn a lot about other people’s brains, doing that.
Johnny Flynn
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
Wilkie Collins
It’s my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.
Marcus du Sautoy