167 Brain Surgery Quotes

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Famous Brain Surgery Quotes

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it. — Wilder Penfield

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. - Lou Gramm

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. — Lou Gramm

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery. — Anne Sexton

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache. — Robert Fischell

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache. — Robert Fischell on Faraday’s Law

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray. — Rene Leriche

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. — Eben Alexander

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. — Francis Crick

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow. — Allyson Schwartz

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain. — Hippocrates

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself. — Norman Mailer

Short Brain Surgery Quotes

  • Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. — Han Suyin
  • The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. — Howard Hughes
  • Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. — Dag Hammarskjold
  • If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. — Pablo Picasso
  • I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. — Winston Bennett
  • I bet the human brain is a kludge — Marvin Minsky
  • Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. — Mitch Daniels
  • If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it. — Marvin Hagler
  • He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war. — Hippocrates
  • Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery. — Russell Kirk
Brain surgery quote Don't be afraid to be open-minded. Your brain isn't going to fall out.
Don't be afraid to be open-minded. Your brain isn't going to fall out.

Brain Surgeons Quotes

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. — Robert Cormier

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams. — Richard Selzer

Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert. — Allan Pease

Brain surgery quote Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners. — Bill O'Reilly

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. — David Hockney

Brain surgery quote Dont be afraid to be open minded. Your brain isnt going to fall out!
Dont be afraid to be open minded. Your brain isnt going to fall out!

I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. — Keith Richards

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous. — James Nesbitt

There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign. — Peter Kreeft

Brain Tumor Quotes

I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't. — Ralph W. Moss

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds. — Rachel Grady

The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors. — Shannon O'Brien

Brain surgery quote Train your mind to see the good in every situation.
Train your mind to see the good in every situation.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. — J. D. Salinger

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again. — Mark Ruffalo

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world. — C.C. DeVille

Brain surgery quote No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain,
No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner. — John Green

In April 2007 I learned that Yves Saint Laurent had a brain tumor, and he died on June 1, 2008. During those 14 months I had plenty of time to think about what would happen. There was only one solution: the auction. An auction establishes memory. That's what I want to do. — Pierre Berge

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching. — Jim Harrison

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor. — O.R. Melling

Brain Cancer Quotes

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model. — Jimmy Fallon

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. — David Foreman

Brain surgery quote My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strengt
My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated in the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. — Paul Simon

The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it? — Charles Teo

You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. — Lance Armstrong

Brain surgery quote Our entire biological system, the brain and the earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
Our entire biological system, the brain and the earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! — Jim Valvano

We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation. — Robert Winston

Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign. — Bill Maher

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer. — Jimmy Carter

Brain Injury Quotes

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable. — Martin Amis

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. — Charlie Cox

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away. — Sayings

Brain surgery quote You have brains in your head. You have the feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself, any direction
You have brains in your head. You have the feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself, any direction you choose

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. — Richard Hammond

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries. — Douglas MacArthur

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. — Muhammad Ali

Brain surgery quote The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, ana
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. — Henry Rollins

Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military. — Ken Wahl

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain. — Ann McKee

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life. — Judy Woodruff

Heart Surgery Quotes

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery. — Dean Ornish

While I've done over 10,000 heart operations and invented operations and devices that are used every day in heart surgery, the joy I receive from watching even one person take back their health just can't be surpassed, and certainly can't be measured monetarily. — Steven Gundry

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you. — Josh Ryan Evans

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great! — Robin Williams

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques. — Don Meyer

I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery. — John Waters

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive. — David Letterman

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am. — Robin Williams

[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor. — William DeVries

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature. — Merle Haggard

Surgery Quotes

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king. — Fred Hollows

Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man — Maynard James Keenan

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. — Deepak Chopra

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain. — Graham Norton

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware. — Joan Rivers

If surgeons drill out or remove too much tissue, especially the turbinates, the nose can’t effectively filter, humidify, clean, or even sense inhaled air. For this small and unfortunate group of patients, each breath comes in too quickly, a hideous condition called empty nose syndrome. — James Nestor

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner

They botched one of the two surgeries and created a hernia. You can't treat chronic pain with surgery. — Eric Berg

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass. — Dave Barry

Neurological Quotes

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J. G. Ballard

Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general affect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and your energy levels. — Donna Farhi

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. — Bill Maher

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain — Clifford Geertz

Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again. — Robert Anton Wilson

Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible. — Russell Barkley

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. — Alice Weaver Flaherty

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. — Oliver Sacks

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate. — Goldie Hawn

Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw. — James Redford

Central Nervous System Quotes

Well, much of my research over the years has been on stress, and the adverse effects of stress on the health of the central nervous system. All things considered, I've been astonishingly unhelped by my own research. — Robert M. Sapolsky

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. — Marshall McLuhan

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. — Ingrid Newkirk

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. — Marshall McLuhan

Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb—it is bound to explode. — Sivananda Radha Saraswati

There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat. — Mark Rippetoe

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. — Nirmala Srivastava

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. — George Crumb

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. — Max Eastman

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation. — Daniel Suarez

Human Brain Quotes

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. — Wilder Penfield

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. — Michio Kaku

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward De Bono

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward De Bono

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. — Martha Beck

We still don’t have a clue about what’s going on in the human brain. We have theories; we just don’t know for sure. We can’t build an electrical circuit, digital or analogue or other, that mimics the biological system. We can’t emulate the behavior. One day in the future, we think we can. — Annie Jacobsen

Studies suggest that humans spend as much as 40 percent of our speech time informing others about our own subjective experiences. It’s believed that doing this fires up neural pathways associated with reward and activates addiction centers in the brain such as the nucleus accumbens. — Rangan Chatterjee

The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails. — Gustav Holst

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? — Joy Adamson

The most important kind of human communication happens when our brains send information to other brains through complex patterns of air pressure waves. Have you ever stopped and thought about how incredible that is? — Tim Urban

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. — Ray Kurzweil

Brain Damage Quotes

Only the passage of time will we know what long term damage may occur to these children. These vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system, and their ability to have children in the future. — Robert W. Malone

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons. — Timothy Leary

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time. — Lisa Marie Presley

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs. — Julianne Moore

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.) — Robert Anton Wilson

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself. — Susan Boyle

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability. — Susan Boyle

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. — Layne Staley

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast — Ronald Reagan

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More Brain Surgery Quotes

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. — Paul Schullery

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me. — Lake Bell

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer. — Robert Solow

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful! — Joe McNally

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy. — Lil Wayne

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline. — Jamie Wyeth

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that. — Rosanne Cash

When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along. — Clint Eastwood

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot. — Colin Farrell

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit. — Michael Bay

I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?" — Gary Kraftsow

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery? — Christopher Willard

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery. — Micky Dolenz

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television. — Linda Ellerbee

Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun. — Michelle Akers

So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery. — Lisa Rinna

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. — Anthony Hopkins

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax. — Joanne Greenberg

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity? — Joyce Carol Oates

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. — Gloria Steinem

It's a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times. — Tom Brady

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that. — Sylvester Stallone

Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room. — Suzy Becker

I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat or dog book; I felt compelled. At the time (May 1999), I was planning to write and illustrate an altogether different memoir, a book about my decision whether or not to have a baby. — Suzy Becker

Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain. — Rosanne Cash

You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed the negatives, floating the sheets in the correct acids and watching the faces and breasts and pubic triangles and sofas emerge. The making and destroying coming from the same source, same lust, same surgery his brain was capable of. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq) — Michael Ondaatje

Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it. — Sarah Wright

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor." — Harlan Ellison

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy. — Steve Carell

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. — Alexander Eliot

When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don't make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they're going through. When you get older you think 'It's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.' — Anthony Hopkins

The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world. — Carla Gugino

Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society. — Dave Parker

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television. — David Letterman

'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.' — Michael J. Fox

Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes. — Jasper Fforde

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery. — John Powell

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new. — Carter Burwell

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer. — Ben Bernanke

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