“It doesn’t take brains to mate!”

“The beauty of the brain is that you can still be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It takes a long time for people to recognize their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves.”

Theodore Zeldin (1933) English academic

“It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.”

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author

“I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.”

Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress

“The proportions, the black hair, the dark eyes, everything was the same. Only, giant. It short-circuited his neural wiring. The lizard living at the back of his brain kept jumping back and forth between Mate with it! and Flee from it!”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

“The great events of the world take place in the brain…”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet