Organs Quotes

• We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp around me, and he crushes me to his body as he slides his nose along the shell of my ear. "When I take you, you'll be mine," he says, a soft promise in my ear.

  

  Katy Evans
  • Promise
  • Certain
  • Staring

• Even the brain, that most delicate and complex of all known organs, is not merely a lot of neurons added together. While a genius must have more of the gray matter than a sparrow, the idiot may have just as much as the genius. The difference between them must be explained in terms of how those substances are organized.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Genius
  • Difference
  • Idiot

• Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Reality
  • Energy
  • Breast Cancer

• [The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

  

  Kate Orff
  • Beautiful
  • motivation
  • Accepting

• 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. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Important
  • Band
  • Contribution

• He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Speak
  • My Mind
  • Transformed

• The ancient Egyptian mummification process involved, for instance, preserving all of a person’s organs except the brain—thought to be useless—which they scrambled with hooks into a custard and scooped out through the nose.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Organs
  • Mummification process

• The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Heart
  • Scales
  • Organs

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