Organ Quotes

316 quotes by 270 authors

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in. — Dan Aykroyd
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. — Tracy Chapman
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. — Winston Churchill
I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever… — George Clooney
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of… — Christopher Hitchens
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must… — Albert Einstein
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you. — Judith Orloff
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you. — Robert Collier
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down… — Benjamin Disraeli
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. — Emo Philips
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald

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