I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11
Walter MosleyTag: writing science-fiction brains smarts
When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.
Jo NesbøTag: brains appearance headhunting
I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.
Erin McCarthyTag: intelligence sociology brains guts academics
I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?
Randa Abdel-FattahShow Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
Anthony HorowitzTag: intelligence sherlock-holmes genius brains deduction mental-power
She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
Bram StokerTag: intelligence purpose man woman women god mind heart mankind brain brains giftedness combination gifted
It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she’d finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn’t seem to give it up.
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsTag: body teacher brains crush
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes racing detection destruction facts brains machines analysis uselessness engines
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
Francine PascalTag: emotions brains pavement splattered
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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