Organs Quotes
507 quotes by 389 authors
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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…
— Naomi Wolf
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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing.…
— Robert Wyatt
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Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives…
— Clara Zetkin
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Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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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…
— Frans de Waal
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex…
— Richard Dawkins
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Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths…
— Charles Baudelaire
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My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
— Woody Allen
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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…
— Anais Nin
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices…
— James Joyce
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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
— George Eliot
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But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place…
— Joan Didion
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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a…
— Bruno Schulz
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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree…
— Marshall McLuhan
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...the heart is an organ of fire.
— Michael Ondaatje
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed…
— Sarah Waters
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
— Voltaire
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