John Waters Quotes

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for having overstimulated my mental apparatus in my twenties.

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating.

I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don't necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we're getting dumber.

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.