“If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of Bloomingdale’s.”— Mike Bloomberg, vanityfair.com
“You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other.”— Richard Price, Fast Eddie Felson, Paul Newman, imdb.com
“I was never the brains behind the band – that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package. It was the outlet I was looking for.”— Keith Flint, matt-blake.co.uk
“Dorothy: How can you talk, if you haven't got a brain? The Scarecrow: I don't know. But, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Dorothy: Yes. I guess, you're right.”— Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Dorothy Gale, Judy Garland, imdb.com
“Bombs won't stop terrorism, brains will, and we don't have nearly enough of those. I'm gonna give you a shot, Snowden.”— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Corbin O'Brian, Rhys Ifans, imdb.com
“Alex: You remember when I was little and I was afraid to fight? Yolanda: Yeah, you had brains back then. Alex: Do you know what I was afraid of? Yolanda: Getting hurt? Alex: Losing.”— Maria Elena Rodriguez, Adam Fierro, Alex Santiago, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com
“Eddie: Don't go puttin' none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at the VA they had to replace it with plastic. It ai…”— John Hughes, Clark Griswold, Chevy Chase, imdb.com
“Silvio Dante: His brains are splattered all over the seat. Paulie Walnuts: Joey Peeps? Couldn't have been too much to clean up.”— Terence Winter, Matthew Weiner, Paulie Walnuts, Tony Sirico, imdb.com
“We have enough people that can shoot guns. We needed someone with brains.”— Dave Kalstein, Alex Parrish, Priyanka Chopra, imdb.com
“But there’s no doubt that whatever their brains look like, behavior and school performance differences between men and women are strongly shaped by socialization.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“Colloquially, we might call someone who lies a lot a psychopath, just as we might call someone who texts us more frequently than we want 'crazy.'”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“A primary psychopath won't necessarily be dangerous, but if we can see that in a kid, we can tell parents to look for certain kinds of behavior.”— Judith Ohikuare, theatlantic.com
“You've got the brains and the talent to go as far as you want. And when you do, I'll be right there to borrow money.”— George Meyer, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com
“Daria: Only Quinn could turn having brains into a fad. Jane: You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.”— Rachel Lipman, Glenn Eichler, Jane Lane (voice), Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
“You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.”— Dan Vebber, Spike, James Marsters, imdb.com
“Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Rose: I never grew a beard! Sophia: You never grew brains, either!”— Susan Harris, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com
“If we can replace everything—cells, tissues—as we live, then there would be presumably no limits to how long we could live. But if we replace our neurons, we’re also rewriting our own experience in the process, and cease to be ourselves. I think that’s the real penalty for extending life beyond the…”— Philip Ball, aging.nautil.us
“Minds are useful when we need to conceptualize, plan, theorize. But when we depend on them to guide our inner lives, we're lost.”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com