Brains

Famous quotes containing the word brains:

“install me in any profession
Save this damn’d profession of writing,
where one needs one’s brains all the time.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second- guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“For brains there is no substitute.
“Unless it’s sweetbreads,” you suggest
With innuendo I detest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)