Date: 1904
"When you wish to instruct be brief, that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of the brimming mind."
preview | full record— T.H.L.L.
Date: 1964
"Let us all with drills and homework / Manufacture human minds."
preview | full record— Anonymous [Free Speech Movement]
Date: 1966
"His mind works like a stopped clock, and the time is half-past McKinley."
preview | full record— Author Unknown
Date: 1968
"Like a clock whose hands are sweeping / Past the minutes of its face, / And the world is like an apple / Whirling silently in space, / Like the circles that you find / In the windmills of your mind!"
preview | full record— Bergman, Alan (b. 1925) and Marilyn Bergman [née Keith] (b.1929)
Date: 1972
"My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare; / I had to cram so many things to store everything in there."
preview | full record— Bowie, David [David Robert Jones] (1947-2016)
Date: 1988
"Just as a cake recipe requires you to use flour, sugar, and baking powder in the right amounts, your brain needs a fine chemical balance."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 2006
"You wave your torch into my eyes / Flamethrower lover burning mind."
preview | full record— Sonic Youth [Kim A Gordon, Thurston Joseph Moore, Lee M Ranaldo, Steven Shelley]
Date: 2006
"You doused my soul with gasoline / You flicked a match into my brain."
preview | full record— Sonic Youth [Kim A Gordon, Thurston Joseph Moore, Lee M Ranaldo, Steven Shelley]
Date: March 31, 2009
"Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology--including, at one point, telephone switchboards."
preview | full record— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam
Date: March 31, 2009
"Today people talk about brains as if they were a sort of biological computer, with pink mushy 'hardware' and 'software' generated by life experiences."
preview | full record— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam