603 quotes found
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
“My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.”
“Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.”
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose," said Pooh, "that that'...”
“Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...”
“Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”
“No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.”
“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”
“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”
“You alone have the power to determine your value. Don’t let somebody else paste a discount sticker on you. You’re priceless.”
“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
“When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.”
“The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.”
“When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, staying down when we fall, and having different versions of the same problem in our relationships--we'...”
“Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain.”
“Imagine yourself having a fight with your romantic partner. The tension of the situation makes your limbic system run at full throttle and you become flooded with stress hormones like cortisol and ...”
“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”
“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widesprea...”
“It’s possible that the reason I've never experienced a ghostly presence is that my temporal lobes aren't wired for it. It could well be that the main difference between skeptics (Susan Blackmore no...”
