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“It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.”

Thinking Knows Wells Might Brain Awful

Author:Marian McPartland

“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.”

Knows Writing Matter Speak Brain Subjects Calm Block Plot Translations Subject Matter

Author:Tea Obreht

“You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.”

Knows Giving Littles Brain Watches Snow Shakes Globes

Author:Gary Larson

“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”

Knows Trying Bigs Brain Break Saws Football Hero Mets Beats England Studios Drunk Scotland My Hero Refrigerators Football Match

Author:Andy Partridge

“I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.”

Knows Humor Funny Song Brain Comedy Islands Theme Triangles

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.”

Knows Needs Book Easy Stuff Brain Nice Bed Metaphysical Tranquil Thoughts In Your Head

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.”

“I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Ideas Bigs Brain Valuable Believer Valuable Things

Author:Rian Johnson

“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.”

Knows Mind Wells May House Black Poor Brain Disease Mortals Poison Suspects Suspicion Plague Pestilence

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?”

Knows Men Doe Book Ideas Whole Sound Brain Knowledge Knowing Every Man Scholar Knowing Better

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.”

Knows Men Brain Talking Advice

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.”

Knows Healing Brain Like You Exercise Muscles

Author:Will Rogers

“Live as though you don't exist; like you are two eyeballs floating in space with nothing behind them. No brain attached. Not even hair - Nothing.There is a place inside your own heart, inside your own being that knows the kind of seemingly foolish things I speak and it is totally thrilled to be reminded of this infinite expanse and infinite joy that it is. Find this place.”

Knows Heart Kind Two Joy Speak Space Behinds Brain Like You Hair Infinite Foolish Floating Expanse Eyeballs Floating In Space

Author:Mooji

“I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Reason Hate Term Brain Rocks Stupid Emotional Band Honestly Genre Punk Robots Commonplace Punk Rock Rock Bands Retarded Generic Emo Genres Of Music

Author:Guy Picciotto

“Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.”

Knows Children Attention Brain Millions Know How Messages Filters Input

Author:Goldie

“I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.”

People Knows Want Humans Looks States Joy Religious Brain Leader Scientist Interviews Biology Chemistry Human Brain Making People Happy Religious Leaders Head Of State

Author:Goldie

“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.”

People Knows Years Persons Has Beens Two Dies Causes Results Brain Talking Five Minutes Disease Scientist Average Posts Muscles Five Years Als Diagnosis Terminal Terminal Disease

Author:Steve Gleason

“A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.”

Thinking Knows Men Deals Brain Know How Fit Increase Bargains Statesmen

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.”

“I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.”

People Knows Able Reading Asks Stuff Brain Block Pleasant

Author:Michael Madsen

“I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Might Jobs Brain Talking Know How Clean Selfish Dirty Changing The World Guarantees Sparks Being Selfish Keep Talking

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.”

Knows Want Soul Song Brain Paint Blow Pursuit Makers Rhyme Mute Butchers Bakers Flutes

Author:Robert Browning

“Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?”

Knows World Want Years Stills Brain Psychology Female Experts Giants Fifty Diaries Women Want Analyzing

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.”

Knows Real Dream Law Desire My Own Brain Environment Products Appearance Real Life Permanent Awake Distinction Recognise Actuality Transitory

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.”

Knows Humans Done Culture Causes Natural Brain Essentials Survival Machines Function Currents Entity Grounded Selection Natural Selection Human Brain Computing Good Causes

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“You dogs are smart enough to know that worry is something you do with a bone, and let it got at that. Even Pavlov couldn't do any more than prove that your brain is in your gut--something that you knew all along.”

Knows Enough Brain Worry Dog Prove Smart Bones Guts Let It Go Pavlov

Author:Frank Loesser

“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.”

“It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Book Hard Feelings Fighting Process Enjoy Challenges Brain Written Hard Work Solve Honestly Limitation

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Use Ability Love Is Brain Complexes Focused Pushing

Book:Nancy Crow

Source: Nancy Crow

“If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Believe Kind Persons Sides Brain Special Talent Productivity Interfere

Author:Jim Rowe

“If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Helping Fall Sports Brain One Day Active Always Working Crosswords Active Minds

Author:Brett Hull

“When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.”

Knows Want Feels Made I Can Helping Sports Decision United Brain Changed Losing Responsible Mad Defeat Clubs Fantastic Wrong Decision

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.”

Thinking Knows Wanted Brain Retard

Author:Andy Dick

“All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.”

Knows Trying Language Brain Suits Territory Going Out

Author:Sam Mendes

“You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.”

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Author:Jack White

“I believe there's more than this - that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. But yeah, I think something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.”

People Knows Trying Believe Kind Happens Dies I Believe Brain Crazy Afterlife Confusing Being Crazy

Author:Flying Lotus

“I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.”

Knows Heart Said Book Reason Reading Brain Written Truth Is Authority Claims Tolerance Always Believe

Author:Stephen Fry

“What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.”

Knows Needs Trying Firsts Eye Kids Walks Brain Mad Library Censorship

Author:Stephen King

“As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.”

Knows Trying Persons Hard School Wish Brain Study Dad Difficulty Plant Seven My Dad Eight Chips Tutor

Author:Dichen Lachman

“No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.”

Knows Trying Children Earth Brain Ordinary Folks Meant To Be

Book:The living

Source: The living

“nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.”

Knows Men Doe Sex Brain Son Daughter Intelligence Equality Limitation

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.”

Knows Reason Light Earth Remember Brain Proud Terrible Tales Sunrise Woe Passed Away

Book:Folle-Farine

Source: Folle-Farine

“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.”

“The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?”

Knows Dies Brain Alive Conditions Months Periods Cost Dollars Patient Cancer Lots Of Money Worth It Diagnosis Brain Cancer

Author:Charles Teo

“The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Looks Persons Book Asks Memories Answers Forget Brain Married Give Me Commit Lazy Laziness Being Married Suitcases

Author:Alice Thomas Ellis

“All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.”

Knows World Trying Believe Humans Numbers Brain Cutting Feet Size Inches Schemes Measurement Fathom Ploy

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

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