The mob has many heads, but no brains

I love when my cat crushes his forehead into mine like my skull is an empty beer can. But it’s not—there’s still a sip left.

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, ‘Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would...

God, He didn’t write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And...

I’ve always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had...

I put my brains in neutral and told myself ‘I will make it, … A weight has dropped from our shoulders.

I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don’t need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven’t gotten laid since Bush Senior was president… Do...

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People...

When you’re talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you’re talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the...

[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn’t want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one...

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all...

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

For such small heads, little kids seem to have the biggest brains. No disrespect to midgets.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it’s meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as...

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values … and a heart.

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it’s like they say, if you’re not a...

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the...

[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades...

People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.

I’ve always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart —...

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this...

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida maana shida ni kipimo cha akili, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima maana hekima ni ufunguo wa maamuzi mema na udadisi wa kiakili.

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

The political brain is shaped like a peanut, only not as big.

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Pooh hasn’t much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There’s Owl. Owl hasn’t exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the...

To get him to agree, I put a gun to his head. To get him to not change his mind, I blew out his brains.

I was asked why I seek depth when I look at people, then I answered: Because my brain is beyond my eyes.