Organ Quotes - page 8

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ. (Kate Clinton)
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people? View quote
Michael Moore
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures. View quote
Steven Brust
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life. View quote
Max Heindel
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. View quote
Tracy Chapman
Most of us will be eclectics to this side or that according to our temperament. The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. View quote
E. M. Forster
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg 'pate'. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. (Ambrose Bierce)
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments .... It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Moreover, he must address himself not to a special and unique sense like hearing, which the musician bends to his will, and which is, besides, the organ par excellence of expectation and attention; but rather to a general and diffused expectation, and he does so through a language which is a very odd mixture of incoherent stimuli. View quote
Paul Valéry
Competition is dangerous, socially offensive, considered right and normal, because you are brought up to that value system. What kind of competition did Jesus have? What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said, "I'm the most important organ!" And the liver said, "I am. And I want a Free Enterprise system!" View quote
Jacque Fresco
The church and the world alike demand that those who profess to love the Lord should be careful to love their brethren also. It is for them to have in essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, in all things charity. Only so can the church realize the ideal of its Divine Founder, and foreshadow its future excellence and beauty. Only so can this spiritual structure be celestial and glorious, revealing in all its fair proportions from dome and turret, from glittering spires and airy traceries, its marvelous symmetry and oneness, while at the same time it swells from every organ pipe, and chants in every choral anthem the praises of Him whose essence is love, and whose being is characterized by unity. View quote
John McClellan Holmes
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The language organ evolved on Tuesday; language was invented on Wednesday; and everyone else in the world was eliminated on Thursday. View quote
Mark Rosenfelder
This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. (Frans de Waal)
I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ - very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Hungary, severed from half of the population and most of the natural resources that it had once claimed, had now to practice a sort of economic acupuncture, striving to know the magic nodes in the global energy flow where a pinprick could alter the workings of a major organ. Mathematics was one of the few disciplines where it was possible to exert that degree of leverage, and so the Hungarians had become phenomenally good at teaching it to their children. View quote
Neal Stephenson
The organ banks would be supplied for years. View quote
Larry Niven