Quotes with brain

Quotes 121 till 140 of 175.

  • Sir George Jessel The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
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  • Bill Viola The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • David Sarnoff The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Bernard Beckett The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Herman Melville The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carl Sagan The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Graham The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
    Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • George Leonard The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Arnold Bennett There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Ben Carson There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Burr There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from No, don't say that to Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.
    Why Do I Do This?
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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