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“My brain does like the idea of hosting a late-night show. My brain does like the idea of maybe having a show about me. So, I often pitch ideas and work on scripts and do that just because I may not be right about how I feel, so why not just do this, and if it happens and I got my own show, well maybe I would really end up falling in love with it.”

Ifs Feels Wells May Doe Ideas Ends Shows Happens Night Fall My Own Brain Late Falling In Love Scripts Why Not Late Night I May Not Be

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.”

Thinking May Whole Brain Fine Shapes Function Priorities Affected Motor Ordeals Close To Death

Author:Bill Berry

“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

“However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.”

“Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.”

May Brain Manage Cooks Back Burner

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.”

May Kids School Brain Successful Drink Smoke Occasions Pot Surgeons Martini Stoners Brain Surgeons

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.”

May Long Real Moving Artist Imagination Natural Existence Brain Wander Justify Phenomenon Natural Phenomena

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!”

May Children Eye Heaven Stars Brain Weight Shining Size Smoke

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“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

“The female brain may confer distinctive economic advantages, to the benefit of all, and we should, therefore, pursue seriously having equal numbers of women in topic economic and financial posts. If we persist in having unequal numbers, then we should advantage the women and have a smaller percentage of men.”

Ifs Men Should May Numbers Brain Economic Equal Benefits Advantage Female Financial Pursue Posts Persist Topics Percentages Distinctive

Author:Semir Zeki

“How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.”

World Kind May Mean Children Has Beens Facts Use Might Suffering Lost Deals Brain Childhood Taught Disease Training Appreciate Ruins Imaginary Might Have Been

Author:Lyman Abbott

“Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.”

Men Looks May Ideas Reason Helping Brain Rich Effects Drink Succeed Gains Wine Dare Marvelous Ingenious Lawsuit

Book:The Eleven Comedies

Source: The Eleven Comedies

“Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

Way May Brain Connections Mathematics Developing

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us--but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.”

Men Way Humans Kind May Littles Reason Happens Grows Brain Break Wise Madness Insane Reasonable Human Brain

Book:Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books)

Source: Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books)

“In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.”

“It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.”

Humans May Has Beens War Whole Winning Brain Principles Groups Huge Pressure Gaps Closest Warfare Inferiors Apes Human Brain Hominids

Author:Jane Goodall

“These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high, Because all sounds do highly move aloft; And that they may not pierce too violently, They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft. For should the voice directly strike the brain, It would astonish and confuse it much; Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain. That it the organ may more gently touch.”

Should May Soul Moving Turns Sound Voice Brain Hearing Strikes Organs Delay Folds Pierce Plaits

Author:Sir John Davies

“Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.”

Men Heart May Character Form Spirit Brain He Man Substance Grain Heroism Thrust Grit Backbone

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.”

Ifs Looks May Brain Risk Stupid Boss Resent Deficiency Illiterate

Author:Peter Drucker

“Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.”

May Helping Might Poor Brain Blood Theory Exercise Research Areas Flow Damage Blood Flow

Author:Bill Vaughan

“If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”

Ifs Thinking May Enough Speak Brain Talking Too Much Empty Tongue Thee

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.”

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke

“Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.”

Feels Believe May Belief Brain Century Habit Healthy Doctrine Rejects Sentiments Persist

Book:The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story

Source: The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story

“Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.”

Ifs May Ideas Humanity Brain Consciousness Millions Produce Determine Cells Cooperation Sections Plausible Singularity

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.”

“Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.”

People May Has Beens Problem Sports Brain Cases Judging Involved Drug Entertainment Lawyer Isolated Surgery Could Have Been Brain Surgery

Author:Dave Parker

“Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!”

May Doe Brain Ignorance Disease Racism Disappear Sickness Diminish

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”

Knows Men May Book Whole Order Brain Creativity Trouble Dangerous Painting Criticism Safety Rate Bounds Dues Better Off Calves Ticklish

Author:Herman Melville

“Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.”

Men Believe May Character Body Age Faces I Believe Women Brain Genius Primaries Maturity Latter Courageous Skulls Outlines Energetic Prominent

Author:Charles Darwin

“I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.”

“Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.”

Ifs May Facts Dies Brain Authority Dresses Size Cells Affected Shrinks Shrinking Brain Cells

Author:Erma Bombeck

“It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now.”

May Done Guy Reading Brain Comedy Planets Right Now Shirts Laughed Wet Cried This Guy Soaking Best Comedy

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.”

Men Giving May Children Said Body Asks Brain Fit Husband Equal Labor Slave My Children My Husband Controlled Household Unborn Male Dominance

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.”

Thinking May Mean Form Reading Brain Technology Possibility Communication Habit Structure Available Online Communication Technology

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!”

Ifs Knows May Doe Said Two Book Able Reading Brain Concerned Mutual Chapters Composing Composing Music

Author:Daniel Levitin

“Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality.”

May Dream Reality Brain Effects Disease Patient Cells Executives Organs Stem Researchers Cords Alzheimer Alzheimer's Stem Cell Spinal Cord Biotech

Author:George Woolf

“I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.”

Ifs Thinking May Passion Brain Areas Musical Criminals Damage Traits Emergence Suppressing Seizures Eruption

Author:Oliver Sacks

“It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.”

Ifs May Seems Sound Voice Brain Active Noise Curious Sufficient Input Auditory

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.”

Thinking Humans May Soul Would Be Literature Individual Brain Personality Aspect Silly Immortal Being Silly Human Personality

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.”

May Brain Damage

Author:Jules Feiffer

“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”

Looks May Said Eye Love Is Brain Beauty Without Love Luster Guile

Book:The complete dying earth

Source: The complete dying earth

“In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.”

People Knows Way Writing Trying May Doe I Can Ends Character Running Given Brain Scene Reactions Crafts Chains Spontaneous Spontaneity Schizophrenia Muster Chain Reactions

Author:Richard Price

“Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.”

Men Heart Kind May Stills Helping Use Inspiration Brain Grace Duty Brave Ill Excuse Faithful Brave Man Versatile Exemplary

Book:The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Source: The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

“Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.”

People May Mean Chance Brain Listening Riddle Unconquerable

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.”

Giving May Facts Problem Form Energy Understanding Answers Brain Emotional Crisis Remains Surprise Profound Insight Muscles Reservoirs Life Crisis

Author:Bruce Lee

“Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"”

People Way Wells Heart May Persons Different Body Used Certain Dies Asks Speak Brain Particular Died Definitions Arise Buddhist Spokes Misunderstanding Confusing Parts Of The Body

Author:Dalai Lama

“The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.”

May Has Beens Art Lying Brain Teaching Art Is Shadow Instinct Application Academic Venus Misled Canon Nymphs Parthenon

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?”

Heart May Body Eye Together Humanity Brain Movement Building Tomorrow Ultimate Drawing Logical Wholeness Unification Composites

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.”

“In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.”

Ifs World Way Mind Firsts Looks May States Interest Brain Known Buddhism Healthy First Time Enthusiasm State Of Mind Engagement Beginners Optimal

Author:Louis Cozolino