Brain Quotes - page 13

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. (Tess Gerritsen)
I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible. View quote
Tom Chatfield
I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out. View quote
Tony DiTerlizzi
Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think. View quote
William Goldman
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain? View quote
Philip K. Dick
We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains. View quote
Philippa Perry
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world. View quote
Frei Otto
Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept. View quote
Frances Hardinge
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. View quote
Frances Hardinge
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. (Helen Fisher)
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too. View quote
Helen Fisher
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue. View quote
Helen Fisher
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. View quote
Helen Fisher
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. View quote
Helen Fisher
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being. View quote
Helen Fisher
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. View quote
Helen Fisher
American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. View quote
Charles G. Dawes
I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. (Shawn Achor)
The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex. View quote
Adam Ant
Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle. View quote
Asia Argento
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast. View quote
Brian May
I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not. View quote
Bryan Fuller