Cerebral Quotations

My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with it, there were no resources for people with the condition. So my grandmother and grandfather, who lived in Brooklyn, tried to reach out for some type of resource or support, and people just told them to institutionalize my father.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

The Professor snorted like an angry buffalo. "You really touch the limit," said he. "You enlarge my view of the possible. Cerebral paresis! Mental inertia! Wonderful!

The prime minister has had a CT scan that showed the cerebral hemorrhaging has stopped. The prime minister is now being transferred to the neurosurgical intensive care unit. In the unit, he will be treated, observed and cared for.

She's a very cerebral swimmer. She spends an inordinate amount of time studying her competition. When she gets into the pool with swimmers she hasn't competed against before, that knowledge gives her an edge.

One of our riders with cerebral palsy recently started talking for the first time. She wasn't verbal, and now she's speaking in sentences. Her mother couldn't believe it.

I'd be surprised if one quarterback in the league could compute his own rating. Peyton Manning is as cerebral as it gets, and I don't think he'd have a first clue.

He has a degree in psychology, so he's very cerebral about pitching and mechanics and things like that. He would make me think more than I usually did, which is sometimes bad for me.

He is a very cerebral player. He studies offense and has a good feel for the game. We give him a lot of freedom to kind of line up in a lot of different places.

He has significant, massive cerebral bleeding. . . the aim of the operation is to drain it. We have the largest team that Israeli medicine can offer, the most senior people.

What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

We are gaining more understanding of the pathology and mechanisms behind the development of cerebral palsy. And with this understanding, we may be able to prevent some cases of cerebral palsy in the future, for example through vaccinations against infectious agents.

Herpes group B nucleic acids were found more often in neonatal blood spots of babies who were diagnosed subsequently to have cerebral palsy.

He's a very cerebral quarterback. He was very capable last year.

He's a very cerebral pitcher and he knows what he does best. To his credit, he hasn't let anything go to his head. He's the same kid he was when the streak started.

He was such a cerebral player with an ability to dissect the opposing team, pinpoint its weakness and then exploit it. To me, this is an opportunity to get an insight into that mind.

He'll be a real good player for Arkansas. He's savvy and has a great cerebral approach to the game.

Kids learn and communicate through speech by trying out new words and forming sentences. If they can't do that due to problems such as autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, then it is going to be difficult to learn how to read and write, make friends, and communicate their needs.

Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.

It doesn't require a huge amount of athletic ability to play. And it's got this cerebral component that appeals to people like Sam.

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can slow you down and get you in touch with your body?s needs.

This research underlines the fact that yet another antenatal cause of cerebral palsy has been identified, and provides further evidence that cerebral palsy is very rarely caused by events during labor.

You have to beat them; they're not going to beat themselves because they're a very cerebral basketball team. They're not the most athletic team in the world, but they're going to negate your athletic ability by playing smart.

You have to take the cerebral level out. The more you think, the more you get in your way sometimes. You can't do yourself in with your own mind.

At our school, we deal with kids who have brain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, things like that. I'm very familiar with that. So I was thinking of not being able to do what I do. It didn't freak me out. It just made me think: Now you've got to play this card. Now you're going to do what you can, in the time that you have.

The risk of cerebral palsy was nearly doubled with exposure to certain herpes viruses, including the chicken-pox virus. In addition, the presence of cytomegalovirus was associated with preterm delivery in babies without cerebral palsy.

The risk of cerebral palsy is nearly doubled with exposure to the herpes B viruses.

I've played sick before. I've played sicker than this. It's kind of old hat for me. You've just got to use your energy more wisely, play a more cerebral game. You have to pick your spots.

Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity.

The most improved player in the whole Valley. No doubt about it. It was all guts. He's not a kid that you sit down and watch lots of film with because he is what I would call not the most cerebral player, but he's the toughest player.

They know each other on the basketball floor, but they also are good for each other. Jeff is more cerebral and knows how to keep his emotions in check. Sylvester has had trouble controlling his emotions, but Jeff has helped him do that. Jeff has told me how to approach Sylvester. In the locker room at times, it's Jeff who tells Sylvester to pick it up or change something abut his game.

There was Vaughany in 1990 collar up, very calm, tall, dignified, imposing and already cerebral at the age of 15, long and angular, but always with a jokey disposition,

They're all cerebral quarterbacks, and that's what I want to be. To be mentioned in the same sentence as those guys would be a great honor.

It will have a peaceful, cerebral kind of feel.

It's a cerebral process; you're trying to learn, you're trying to play at the same time.

For Jared, making music is very personal and cerebral so for him to open up and share the experience is difficult.

It's a pretty cerebral play. There's an awful lot of passion and emotion, but where it really pays off is in thought.

There was an Aunt, she had a 13 year old nephew that had cerebral palsy that was stuck in a house that had been flooded. They were upstairs in the attic actually and she had another nephew that was three years old.

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

If you test him in agility (drills), he won't score real well, but he's very cerebral with the game. He knows when to penetrate, knows who the hot shooters are and knows when to get it to the big guys.

If he's suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage, it means a blood vessel in his brain has burst and the situation is really critical.

I do like his cerebral approach to the game. That's why we blend so well. I also like that he gets on people's a---- because I do that too. But it seems that his mind is constantly going.

I do like his cerebral approach to the game,

He brings the offensive game of lacrosse to a more cerebral level.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

The combination of Aaron and Anderson gives us fire and ice. Anderson is about visceral experience. Aaron is kind of about the cerebral analysis.

Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.