“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.” MenWorldFeelsMindPersonsIdeasSpiritHumanityUniverseBrainPiecesWiseGeniusInspiredMechanismFinestAnimatedGreat IdeaWise Person Author:Alfred Armand Montapert
“When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.” PeopleFirstsHumansHeartFactsBodyProcessBrainPiecesMastersFlowAgingRateWaveMysteriousRhythmClockPreciseHuman BodyLaboratoryRuthlessExquisiteIntervalsVariablesTickObliviousCrispsHydrogenAlphasPhysiological Book:Dance for Two: Essays Source: Dance for Two: Essays
“When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.” WantDoeMightTogetherActorsDealsBehindsBrainTalkingPiecesStudiosPuzzlesPackagesBusiness Deals Author:Kevin Hart
“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.” LooksHas BeensDifferentWholeRealityHappensPastTurnsLostLevelsResultsBrainWonderPiecesImpossibleHappenedLowsDamageInfidelityOur PastPotatoesYour PastChunksLow Level Book:Heartburn Source: Heartburn
“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.” WritingMindHas BeensTwoCountryStoriesSeemsBrainPiecesGroupsWeekCenturyTenLimitsFilledChinaDataBordersTraveledAnalystsCrawlingFiling Author:Susanna Kaysen
“There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.” HeartSelfInspirationAbleBeautifulBrainMorningStrugglePiecesWonderfulCryExpressionConceptionMidnightSelf ExpressionAll AloneMorning AfterWonderful Day Author:Gene Stratton-Porter
“I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.” BrainPiecesSubjectsProducePaperHumorousCapacityProductionsDefinedDivisionFrontiers Book:Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions Source: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions
“The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."” WayWantGivingGuyBrainMillionsPiecesGeniusIndependentSellsDollarsFranceGermanyDistributionMillion DollarsFinancing Author:Bill Murray
“I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.” WritingKindCharacterCertainActorsBrainPiecesPicksPercentMethodSubconscious Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.” WantFirstsBookBrainPiecesChildhoodTaughtMonthsComplexesPianoTapeSurgeryDisturbingListening To MusicClassical MusicBrain Surgery Author:Rosanne Cash
“What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.” ThinkingMatterBrainPiecesLeavingHotelChocolateCustomsPillow Author:Jerry Seinfeld