Quotes about brain
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“Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Ruthless Game

Change, Personality

“He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

People, Intelligence

“Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

Memory, Madness

“Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Doctor Sally

Source: Doctor Sally

Marriage

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Fools, Art, Science

“Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

Source: Twilight

Way, Thinking

“And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.”

Agatha Christie book Lord Edgware Dies

Source: Lord Edgware Dies

God

“Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really.
Source: Fight Club

Painting

“He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Variant: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Shoe, Inspirational

“All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

People, Religion

“I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it…
- They know nothing.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Science, Parting

“Sweetheart, if it’s not too much of an imposition, I would be forever beholden to you if you could kindly assume a reclining position so I can screw your brains out.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Forbidden Nights with a Vampire

“You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.”

Chris Prentiss

Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

World, Hell, Evil

“I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

Sister, Waiting

“On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.”

Robert M. Sapolsky book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Thinking

“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."

People, Beauty

“When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Reading

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy…”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Boy, Kiss, Reading, Dance

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Truth, Universe

“Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

Source: Definite Article

Speed

“All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.”

Simon Singh (1964) British author

Source: Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

“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

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Imagination, Thinking

“Toleration … is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Part III, Ch. 2: Personality http://books.google.com/books?id=zev1dMhB7C4C&q=Toleration+&quot;is+the+greatest+gift+of+the+mind+it+requires+the+same+effort+of+the+brain+that+it+takes+to+balance+oneself+on+a+bicycle&quot;&pg=PA295#v=onepage <br class="br">The Story of My Life (1903)

Effort, Wise

“All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.”

Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) English children's fantasy writer

Life, Imagination

“The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

World, Justice, Soul, Courage

“Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,
To prove that demon pox warps the brain.
So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain
That the pox-ridden worm was slain:
For to believe in me, you all must deign.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion?”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting."

My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

Guy

“I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

World, Time, Waiting, Personality

“You've got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
"You'd probably kick my butt."
"You know I'd kick your butt.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Happiness, Dreams

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

Hurt

“Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain."
Ditto.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Fight

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

Painting

“That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.”

Angie Sage book Darke

Source: Darke

People, Thinking

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Life

“The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.”

Michio Kaku (1947) American theoretical physicist, futurist and author

Source: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

“In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.”

Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman

Source: Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living

Life

“He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: A Kiss at Midnight

“My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Forgetting

“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

People, Heart

“I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 11 : The Dragon in My Garage, p. 180
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Context: I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

World, Understanding, Thinking