Famous quotes containing the words brain and/or tissue:
“An honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called real life of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)