Organs famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.
-- Alexander Blok -
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg -
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
-- Frederic Harrison -
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it
-- Gerry Mulligan -
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
-- Hilary Mantel -
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.
-- Joseph Pilates -
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
-- Kay Ryan -
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
-- Kevin Kelly -
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
-- Mehmet Oz -
If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.
-- Michelle Sagara -
Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
-- Nicole Krauss -
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ
-- Oscar Wilde -
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
-- Remy de Gourmont -
Stories are the reproductive organs of language.
-- Robert Bringhurst -
The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism.
-- Robert Spencer -
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
-- Susan Wiggs -
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
-- Van Wyck Brooks -
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
-- W. D. Hamilton -
Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
-- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
