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Quotes About Organs

It would, said Biran, be much nearer the truth to say asservie à des organes. Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
~ Aldous Huxley
Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.
~ Author Unknown
The dense Yin Organs of the Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung, and Kidney store the essential and potential energy derived from substances; the hollow Yang Organs of the Gallbladder, Small Intestine, Stomach, Large Intestine, and Bladder process the substances of the external environment.
~ Harriet Beinfield
The moment we crossed over the threshold, the moment when our veins and cells and organs went blip, I closed my eyes And illusioned. It wasn't like any illusion I'd created before. It flowed from me like a song, an orchestra of interweaving threads and melodies, painting themselves into a picture around us. [Everything] ... disappeared, and only Constantine, Queen Honoria and I stood in the nothing between two worlds.
~ Heather Dixon
The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either.
~ Toby Barlow
you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.
~ William Gibson
In the post-blast miasma, all Parisians grew invisible organs that flex in the presence of the marvelous.
~ China Mieville
Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
~ Leone Levi
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
~ Ferdinand de Saussure
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
~ Alexis Carrel
Descriptive Anatomy comprises a detailed account of the numerous organs of which the body is formed, especially with reference to their outward form, their internal structure, the mutual relations they bear to each other, and the successive conditions they present during their development.
~ Henry Gray
The vesicles of the spleen, which form one of the most important elements of this organ in its mature state, are not developed until the period of incubation is near to its completion.
~ Henry Gray
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
~ Eric Topol
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
~ Callie Khouri
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
~ Aldous Huxley
I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of me was the evidence which I would have been daft to ignore. I could see visually where the fat was lying, basically all around my internal organs.
~ Dave Myers
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
~ Harold E. Varmus
The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.
~ Unknown
I thought you said you wre bringing a dead body in for examination. Didn't you think to check he actually was dead first?' Gwen knew he was being sarcastic, but the tone still stung. 'Be fair, Jack,' said Owen from the doorway.'Y'know the guy had done a lot to make himself look dead: lain in a bog for forty years, decayed himself, let the worms in, shrivelled up a bit, stopped breathing, no circulation, all major organs dried up and inactive. Could've fooled anyone.
~ Unknown
She'd dissected Margaret's body without interference, preserving her with formalin, zinc salts, salicylic acid and glycerin. Her organs had been removed and packed in salt for conservation. The family mausoleum had been the perfect resting chamber, as the stone made it easier to keep the body at optimal cold temperature.
~ Unknown
Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely what "stable systems" (Case, 1992a, p. 5) are not. But organs are much more complex than such systems, and it is much more difficult to understand them.
~ Unknown
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
~ Jean Cocteau
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
~ Idries Shah
Los ángeles son los poderes ocultos en las facultades y órganos del hombre
~ Idries Shah