#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

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

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

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. ↗

— Mose Allison

#down #form #i #just #never

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far. ↗

— Ron Glass

#being #does #far #hasn #hit

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees? ↗

— Fiona Apple

#color #else #everybody #everybody else #interpreting

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. ↗

— William Congreve

#brain #brown #despair #flags #goes

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. ↗

— Robert A. Cook

#brains #complain #help #positive #say

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enough #fools #honest #practice #to be honest