Permanent Brain Damage

Famous quotes containing the words permanent, brain and/or damage:

    “Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.... Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “I could brain him with his lady’s fan.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.”
    —Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)