Organs Quotes - Page 3

• The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.

  Anna Funder

  Dream, Running, Space

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• I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

  Michael Grant

  Fear, Eye, Able

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• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

  W. H. Auden

  Lying, Noses, Littles

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  And Love

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.12, Fig

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• The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

  Pliny the Elder

  Blood, Perception, Brain

  Natural History XI.49

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Brother, Lying

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• I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Shopping, Urban Legends

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• Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Two, Broken

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• The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Inspiring, Compassion, Generosity

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• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• ...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

  Marcel Proust

  Stupidity, Noses

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.269, Wordsworth Editions

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• Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you’d die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you’re thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they’re doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Blood, Effort

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• Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Miracle, Survival

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

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• We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

  Germaine Greer

  People, Making Love, Realising

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• [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

  Hilary Mantel

  Heart, Scales

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• Heart of my heart, that’s who you are, Adria Morgan. Chosen and forever.” Picking her hand off his cheek, he pressed a lingering kiss to the palm before placing it over the strong, steady rhythm of that very organ. “Wolf and man, you own every part of me.

  Nalini Singh

  Strong, Heart, Kissing

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Cat, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

  Lili Taylor

  Heart, Important, Want

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• I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

  Stephen Sondheim

  New York, Military, School

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Girl, Blessed, Eye

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• Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

  Mehmet Oz

  Degrees, Sensitive, Knows

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• Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

  Joe Murray

  Thinking, Healthy, Would Be

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• 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

  Emotional, Enemy, Ease

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