"It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days."
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"We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence."
"Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel."
"As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster."
"Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy."
"Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all."
"It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain."
"A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head"
"The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it."
"I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back."
"I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating."
"I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto."
"Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain."
"Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors."
"Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands."
"Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?"
"Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity."
"Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man."
"I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat."
"He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package."