#brain

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#brains #case #clocks #closes #gives

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate. ↗

— David Horowitz

#brainwashed #every #here #issue #student

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#country #critics #greatest #had #i

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense. ↗

— Richard Powers

#come #depend #different #different ways #each

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.' ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#come #high #i #like #official

Books, the children of the brain. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#brain #children

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff. ↗

— Jim Thome

#filling #i #like #lot #really

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#brain #choice #condition #i #learned

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three.... ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#learning #school #vp-shunt #writing #age