All Quotes

The brain is wider than the sky.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
‐‐ Adam Ant

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
‐‐ Miguel Nicolelis

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
‐‐ Marilyn Ferguson

The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

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.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
‐‐ Maximillian Degenerez

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

The Brat Pack is timeless.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
‐‐ Susan Davis

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
‐‐ Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
‐‐ John Gay

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
‐‐ Ernst Moritz Arndt

The brave men and women who have served - and those who continue to serve - our armed forces have selflessly sacrificed for our nation, and we owe it to them to provide the best services and protections available when they're overseas and after they return home.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
‐‐ Marion Barry

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
‐‐ Pericles

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
‐‐ Juliette Lewis

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
‐‐ John Wycliffe

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
‐‐ Mark Millar

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
‐‐ Sheila E.

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
‐‐ Peter Hook

The breakdown of the American family's having a disastrous impact on our economy.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
‐‐ Gautam Singhania

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
‐‐ Georg Buchner

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
‐‐ Chris LeDoux

The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
‐‐ Paul Watson

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
‐‐ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
‐‐ John Oates