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“I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.”

Art Desire Emotional Art Is Manifest Preoccupation Cerebral Deepest Thoughts

Author:Simon Pegg

“I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.”

Years Doe Use Speak Walks Talking Son Becoming Computer Disability Disabled Advocating Cerebral Masons Cerebral Palsy

Author:Laura San Giacomo

“We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.”

Feels Years Humans Doe Ideas Age Today Lasts Spiritual Brain Millions Higher Ancient Mysterious Living Things Closeness Cerebral Overshadowing

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.”

Thinking Cerebral Thinking Things Through

Author:Liz Phair

“While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.”

May Enjoy Pleasure Drink Appreciate Wine Lifetime Complexes Sensual Sensory Cerebral

Author:Natalie MacLean

“My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.”

Thinking Trying Mind Humanity Grows Process Space Crazy Evolution Shapes Unique Insightful Awkward Expansion Thumbs Snaps Cerebral Going Crazy My Space Chum

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.”

Found Results Brain Pieces Blind Structure Reactions Silver Magnificent Delighted Hardened Cerebral Potassium

Author:Camillo Golgi

“It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.”

Brain Development Mortals Extras Inches Right Place Newton Cerebral

Author:Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

“Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.”

“We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.”

“I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.”

Has Beens Unique Capacity Tools Function Regard Therapy Disorder Organize Great Power Alzheimer Cerebral Alzheimer's Parkinson Parkinson's Music Therapy Neurological Disorders

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.”

Deep Down Aversion Cerebral

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.”

Firsts Lasts Perfect Hell Pages Smart Keep Going Thrillers Cerebral

Author:Lev Grossman

“Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better”

“You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.”

Knows Funny Ears Hardest Hardest Thing Eyebrows Being A Woman Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Geri Jewell

“'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.”

Men Kind Littles Stories Moving Guy Adventure Thirds Green Bunch Like Me Encounters Cerebral Close Encounters

Author:Tom DeLonge

“The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.”

“UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.”

Knows Life Has Beens Law House Understanding Nature Horse Roof Cerebral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.”

Made Facts Law Certain Process Consciousness Quality Psychology Materials Psychological Combination Sensations Atoms Molecules Reflexes Cerebral

Book:An Introduction to Psychology

Source: An Introduction to Psychology

“My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”

Self Feelings Might Form Conscious Vanity Self Conscious Cerebral

Author:Richard Griffiths

“Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.”

World Humans Book Ability Records Flower Wall Activity Worthy Fades Carpet Scrap Masturbation Cerebral Physical Activity World Records Antics Guinness Methamphetamine

Author:Clint Catalyst

“If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.”

“Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.”

Virtue Tolerance Ascent Cerebral

Author:Krista Tippett

“Rick Perry is the perfect candidate for those who thought George W. Bush was just too dang cerebral. And Adios, Mofo is the perfect guide to his record, his rhetoric and his remarkable hair. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll vote.”

Perfect Laughing Records Cry Hair Vote Guides Candidates Remarkable Rhetoric Cerebral

Author:Paul Begala

“There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing”

Rowing Cerebral

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.”

Thinking Cutting Surprise Backgrounds Thrust Vulgarity Cerebral Vulgarity Is

Author:Chris Patten

“I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won”

Men Prove Missions Disability Cerebral People With Disabilities Reaching Beyond

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.”

Littles Process Understanding Brain Millions Development Mere Programming Flats Logical Thick Organs Layers Competence Cerebral Neurons Articulating

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.”

People Hard Reason Moving Hate Like Something Cerebral Things You Like

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”

People Too Much Quiet Phrases Thinker Introvert Cerebral Diners Gregariousness

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.”

“Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.”

Thinking Responsibility History Duty Citizens Seats Historian Scholar Clash Visceral Cerebral

Book:Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey

Source: Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey

“The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.”

World Song Order Messages Essence Remains Surface Masculine Vocal Rendering Cerebral Placenta

Author:John Berger

“Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.”

Mind Believe Patient Cerebral Intestines

Author:Bernard Berenson

“I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.”

Parent Influence Poet Teenager Emily Cerebral Plath

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.”

Seems Jazz Mathematical Cerebral

Author:Rita Coolidge

“Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.”

Reading Animal Smell Cerebral

Author:Iain Banks

“I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.”

People Differences Fiction Military Information British Versions Makeup Spy Cia Cerebral Recruit

Author:Charles Cumming

“It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.”

Should Action Turns Actors Brain Roles Directors Guts Visceral Cerebral

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.”

Giving Feels Trying Years Helping Running Community Brother Raises Golf Charity Raised Fortunate My Brother Grants Tournaments Cerebral Federation Ontario Golf Tournaments Cerebral Palsy

Author:Curtis Joseph

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