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Quotes About Brains

A mob's a monster; heads enough but no brains.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.
~ Mandy Bujold
This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.
~ Ann McKee
Koverman is one of my favorite Hollywood characters because she was the brains of MGM, and not many people know about her.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
~ John Updike
The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.
~ Gillian Flynn
Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.
~ Vera Rubin
All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
~ William Albert Allard
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
~ Max Eastman
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
~ Ronald Biggs
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was done only as a consequence of affection for my friend, and the belief that Miss Bennet had been cursed to wander the earth in search of brains.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. Never was this truth more plain than during the recent attacks at Netherfield Park, in which a household of eighteen was slaughtered and consumed by a horde of the living dead..
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I wondered if I were blown to Oz with my dog, what would we ask the wizard for? Hmmm. Brains? I've got plenty. Courage? Butterscotch is scared of nothing! A heart? We've got lots of heart, me and my pup. So what would I ask for? I'd like to sing like the Cowardly Lion and dance like the Tin Man. Neither one of them did those things very well, but that would be good enough for me.
~ Sharon M. Draper
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
~ Ezra Pound
Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes. The habitat in which these ideas reside consists of human brains.
~ Matt Ridley
Neanderthals had all of these: huge brains, probably complex languages, lots of technology. But they never burst out of their niche. It is my contention that in looking inside our heads, we would be looking in the wrong place to explain this extraordinary capacity for change in the species. It was not something that happened within a brain. It was some thing that happened between brains. It was a collective phenomenon. Look
~ Matt Ridley
Braiiinnnnssss, we said in unison. It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
~ Maureen Johnson
The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
~ Ayn Rand
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. And the fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.
~ Stephen King
I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.
~ Megan McDonald
Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.
~ Joseph Jacobs
I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.
~ Erin McCarthy
Jolie's exotic mixture of brains and glamour makes her the one reliable international star, and one of the few of either gender to make people in every country pay to see her.
~ Richard Corliss