Quotes About Brain

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.

Nature is no great mother who has home us. She is our own creation. It is in our brain that she quickens to life. Things are because we see them, and what we see and how we see it depends on the arts that have influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal. Se ha dicho que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo suceden en el cerebro. Es también en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde se cometen los grandes pecados.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

Se dice que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo tienen lugar en el cerebro. Es en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde los grandes pecados del mundo tienen lugar también.

Eww, Jack said, and then giggled. Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain.Aphrodite raised her brow at him. Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.

All right, yeah, sounds good, but I have no idea where they might be. Do you? Is that one of the gifts you have? Shaylin asked. Aphrodite- Goddess, you are brain damaged. No, I don't have a GPS inside my head.

It's brain, I said; pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat a lot of fish, Jeeves? No, sir. Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born that way there's no use worrying.

Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.

I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know; but give me five minutes to talk the thing over with Jeeves, and I'm game to advise any one about anything.

I can conceive that after what occurred in New York it might be distressing for you to encounter Miss Stoker, sir. But I fancy the contingency need scarcely arise.' I weighed this. 'When you start talking about contingencies arising, Jeeves, the brain seems to flicker and I rather miss the gist. Do you mean that I ought to be able to keep out of her way?

But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain.

But then everybody says that, though you have a brain like a peahen, you're the soul of kindness and generosity.' Well, I was handicapped here by the fact that, never having met a peahen, I was unable to estimate the quality of these fowls' intelligence, but she had spoken as if they were a bit short of the grey matter, and I was about the ask her who the hell she meant by 'everybody', when she resumed.

There is a point beyond which the human brain loses its kinship with the Infinite and becomes a mere seething mass of deleterious passions. Malays

The brain is basically a bureaucrat. It looks at the past, applies it to the present and uses it as a map to predict the future. It literally makes up stories.

When life force is shut off from the sensory organs, material sensations cannot reach the brain to snatch away the meditator's attention from God.

People forget that the price of luxury is an ever-increasing expenditure of nerve and brain energy, and the consequent shortening of their natural life span. Materialists become so engrossed in the task of making money that they can't relax enough to enjoy their comforts even after they've aquired them.