#rains

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#brains #heartbreak #marriage #marriage

Een geboorte of een huwelijk mag dan een belangrijke gebeurtenis zijn, maar het garandeert geen plaats in het geheugen.' De hersens, een zeef. 'Knoop dat in uw oren: niets is zeker. Zeker is niets. ↗

— Judith Schalansky

#birth #brains #dementia #marriage #memory

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#brains #evolution #humor #intelligence #love

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#brains #coming #dead #focused #funny

With luck on your side, you can do without brains. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#luck #side #without #you #your

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are. ↗

— Don Cooper

#best #brains #coaches #hey #listen

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bring #empires #eras #match #me

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#between #brains #brilliant #creative #difference

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#box #brains #conference #data #detail

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#brains #goal #republic #university