“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.” MenFactsCausesBrainKnownFiveFeetTelevisionTvsProofMedicalDamageNarcotics Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.” EasyBrainHellFeetDiplomacyDiplomats Author:Charles G. Dawes
“Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.” LongBrainFeetAtheismSizePositive AtheismSixtyWalnuts Author:William S. Burroughs
“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.” KnowsWorldTryingBelieveHumansNumbersBrainCuttingFeetSizeInchesSchemesMeasurementFathomPloy Book:Love Medicine Source: Love Medicine
“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.” YearsEyeEarthBrainFeetAtheismPercentYears AgoToolsSticksErrorsPositive AtheismExperimentsPlusPrecisionZest Author:Carl Sagan
“He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.” StatesPerfectUnitedBrainUnited StatesFeetRocksBirthResourcesFinancialCreditStreamsTouchedConceptionRevenueCorpsesSprungHamiltonFinancial SystemMinerva Author:Daniel Webster
“If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.” IfsLooksHandsRoomsBrainFeetMouthsChairsMicroscopesClipAlways WorkingOperating RoomControlling Everything Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed.” LeftBrainFeetCarLuckyYeahLegsAccidentsClothingsLocksSurvivedBikeProtectiveFlewMotorcycleScrewed UpHelmetPavementBarbersConcussionsSamson Author:Bruce Springsteen