“They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."”
“If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.”
“The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.”
Source: THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities
“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"”
“The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)
“Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.”
“...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.”
Source: The theory and practice of medicine
“Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.”
Source: On the Sacred Disease