quotes about Organs
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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.
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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 -
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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 HarrisonSource : Frederic Harrison (1862). “The Meaning of History: Two Lectures”, p.25
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You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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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 PilatesSource : Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated
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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 KellySource : Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin
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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 -
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Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
-- Molly KellySource : Molly Kelly (1997). “Saved Sex: Chastity-- Because You're Worth It”
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Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
-- Nicole KraussSource : Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.19, Penguin UK
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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
-- Patrick Soon-ShiongSource : "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.
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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 BringhurstSource : Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press
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The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism.
-- Robert Spencer -
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The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
-- Susan WiggsSource : Susan Wiggs (2008). “Just Breathe”, p.467, MIRA
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Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
-- Van Wyck BrooksSource : Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”
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Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
-- W. D. Hamilton -
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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