Best Organ Thoughts
316 Organ quotes by 261 unique authors
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of…
— George Santayana
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to…
— Aneurin Bevan
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In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in…
— Wilhelm Ostwald
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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…
— Billy Preston
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I hope more people decide to become organ donors.
— Donna Reed
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I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I…
— Mary Roach
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How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which…
— Alice Weaver Flaherty
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see…
— Nancy Sinatra
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Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few…
— George Benson
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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of…
— David Eagleman
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Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can…
— Ruby Wax
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Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in…
— Peter Kropotkin
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There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
— Francis Arinze
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Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
— Alice Weaver Flaherty
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
— Thomas de Quincey
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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
— William Shakespeare
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One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a…
— Loren Eiseley
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In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense…
— Loren Eiseley
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Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
— Remy de Gourmont
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the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of…
— David Hume
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Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us…
— Paul Klee
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