Organ Quotes

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

Morning, Brain, Working

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

Hold, Room, Monkey

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Reason, Order

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. Somerset Maugham

Heart, Human, Give

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 participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
Mark Zuckerberg

Crisis, Help, Friends

The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Human, Soul, Voice

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
John Stuart Mill

Power, Themselves, While

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

Good, Talent, Point

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Paul Valery

Great, Thought, Wants

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Lawrence Welk

Family, Father, Small

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

School, Loved, State

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
Rick Wakeman

Die, Play, Climb

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
Janelle Monae

Play, Both, Growing

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

Great, Hope, Others

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.
Brit Hume

Problem, Simply, Propaganda

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

Good, Important, Thought

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sex, Mind, Brain

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, Follow

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Gerry Mulligan

Saxophone, Electric

At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
Richard Morris

Week, Sales, Choir

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 HIM.
Nancy Sinatra

Girl, Care, Him

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
Keith Emerson

Nice, Trying, Sense

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly

Faith, Political, Both

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

Difficult, Dangerous, Healthy

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick

Art, Beautiful, Feelings

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 self-esteem exposed to the air.
Naomi Wolf

Beauty, Women, Sensitive

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
Plotinus

Knowing, Object, Demands

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 miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
David Eagleman

Building, Pink, Material

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
Matthew Sweet

Two, Play, Said

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Charlie Hunter

Play, Guitar, Same

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