Organ Quotes - page 2

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler. (Ernst Kaltenbrunner)
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use. View quote
Arthur Koestler
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. View quote
John Milton
God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it? View quote
Ben Carson
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory. View quote
Hartley Coleridge
... the heart is an organ of fire. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
If you were to close your eyes and walk into a place of worship, the sounds and smells would alert you to where you were: ringing bells, incense, the rumble of a massive organ. Most brands are lacking these sensory stimuli. View quote
Martin Lindstrom
... if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead. View quote
Neal Shusterman
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once. (Susan Wiggs)
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain? View quote
Philip K. Dick
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. View quote
Naomi Wolf
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. View quote
Harvey Cushing
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created. View quote
Nicolas Steno
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. View quote
Alice Weaver Flaherty
I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. View quote
Billy Preston
I hope more people decide to become organ donors. View quote
Donna Reed
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. View quote
Francis Arinze
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. (Herbert Croly)
The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ. View quote
Johannes Peter Muller
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years. View quote
John Perez
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. View quote
Keith Emerson
It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by. View quote
Lili Taylor