Cerebral Quotes - page 3

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it. (Lea Salonga)
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. View quote
Nellie McKay
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. View quote
Oscar Peterson
Addicts, to this day, claim that they are they are the only people qualified to speak of the seriousness of withdrawal effects; as if only people with cerebral malaria or bowel cancer could speak of their seriousness. View quote
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home. View quote
Natalia Vodianova
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. View quote
Chris Patten
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. View quote
Iain Banks
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. (Richard Griffiths)
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. View quote
Bernard Berenson
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities. View quote
Carl Sagan
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. View quote
Tom DeLonge
The anti-Trump protest ongoing is not cerebral or visceral, it's gynocentric. And it's expressly anti-male. View quote
Ilana Mercer
..the highly abstract cubism of Mondrian - a Dutchman - (it is well-known that cubism has made its entrance into the [Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam...) though a product of cubism, Mondrian in no way imitates this style. He seems above all to have undergone the influence of Picasso, but his personality has been remained intact. His trees and his female portrait display a sensitive cerebral quality. This kind of cubism clearly follows a different path from that of Braque and Picasso, artists whose 'recherche de matière' [research of the material as matter, what Mondrian deliberately ignores]] is presently arousing such interest. View quote
Piet Mondrian
...I'm the ‘Southern police' on most of the projects I do...Contrary to what many people seem to believe, there is no ‘stock Southerner.' In fact, there is more variation in us than in other places...this well-known actress was playing a Southern woman, and she was cerebral. She was acting from the chest up, when she should have been acting from the bottom. A Southern woman is not who you play. A Southern woman is who you are. View quote
Alfre Woodard