Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Stanza xix.
One Word More (1855)
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Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Stanza xix.
One Word More (1855)
“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”
Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor
Source: The Hammer of Thor
Matthew Lewis (writer) (1775–1818) English novelist and dramatist
I know, I know
I am not mad, but soon shall be.
"The Captive"; cited from The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (London: Henry Colburn, 1839) vol. 1, pp. 239-40.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist
Source: Collected Poems (1949), Revisitation, Lines from a draft version of "Revisitation" omitted from final version.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: Suppose then, that I do read this Bible honestly, fairly, and when I get through I am compelled to say, “The book is not true.” If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Paul Erdős (1913–1996) Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
A standard greeting he would make when he was not contemplating some mathematical problem, as quoted in My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 10
“My brain: it's my second favorite organ.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Sleeper (1973)