#brain

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brain

What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#athena #percy-jackson #poseidon #brain

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#brain

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. ↗

— Adele

#behind #believe #brain #deliver #difficult

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#become #bigger #brain #brain cells #cells

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#action #any #bigger #brain #cell

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Kip Winger

#could #everything #i #just #lead

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. ↗

— Tris Speaker

#ballplayer #brains #cobb #could #crazy