All Quotes

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
‐‐ Franz Liszt

Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
‐‐ Zendaya

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
‐‐ Feng Zhang

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.
‐‐ John Eccles

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
‐‐ Gracie Allen

Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Brainy's the new sexy.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

'Bram and Alice' is the best show I've done so far, and it only aired three times.
‐‐ Traylor Howard

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.
‐‐ Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.
‐‐ Adam Kluger

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
‐‐ Elon Musk

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Brand marketers don't believe that ad-tech companies view brands as true partners. Ad-tech companies think brand marketers are paying attention to the wrong things. And publishers, with a few important exceptions, feel taken advantage of by everyone.
‐‐ John Battelle

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
‐‐ Marcia Angell

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.
‐‐ Mike Moreno

Brand preferences and consumption levels in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil tend to be more fluid. Consumer research is therefore critical to aid marketers trying to cement brand preferences early on as these economies develop.
‐‐ John Quelch

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as 'sophisticated,' 'desirable,' 'innovative,' 'friendly,' and 'trustworthy.'
‐‐ Nirmalya Kumar

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
‐‐ James Altucher

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
‐‐ Peter Fonda

Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
‐‐ Rachel Perry

Brands are about editing.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Brands are all about trust. That trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Brands are born, not created.
‐‐ Jane Lauder

Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Brands are in your face 24/7; I'm sure you've consumed a couple brands today. So it's fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.
‐‐ Theophilus London

Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'
‐‐ Peter York

Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Brands must become architects of community.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.
‐‐ Shawn Amos