Brains Quotes - page 20

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this. (Jose Padilha)
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. View quote
Julian Barbour
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert. View quote
Kevin Williamson
It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus? View quote
Lynne Truss
I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill. View quote
Lee Trevino
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals. View quote
Mark Pagel
Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another. View quote
Mari Mancusi
My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money. View quote
Alan C. Greenberg
It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening. View quote
Colin Camerer
Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one. (Carne Ross)
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage. View quote
Mem Fox
We basically created a computational unit out of two brains. View quote
Miguel Nicolelis
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains. View quote
Miguel Nicolelis
We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay. View quote
Mika Brzezinski
My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy. View quote
Nathan Fillion
All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting. View quote
Paddy Considine
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. View quote
Peter Diamandis
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers. View quote
Pat Brown
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. View quote
Patricia Sun
He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."! (Rachel Caine)
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. View quote
Ronald Biggs
My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes. View quote
Roz Chast
My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me and my sister, when we were little, we would compete to see who could eat the most squirrel brains. View quote
Shea Hembrey
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. View quote
Sherwin B. Nuland