Organs That Aid Quotes & Sayings

Next week, I should be back to my old self."
"I hope not." Dallas nudged me with his shoulder. — Veronica Blade

But if he didn't read, he was a slave. — Colson Whitehead

Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated as to form a marvelous organ, the structure and composition of which are usually invisible to the naked eye without the aid of a microscope ... Just as Nature deserves praise and admiration for making machines so small, so too the physician who observes them to the best of his ability is worthy of praise, not blame, for he must also correct and repair these machines as well as he can every time they get out of order. — Marcello Malpighi

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist. — Georges Cuvier

We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands
whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring them to attention
but to balance the ledger we are allowed to dwell on the past, revisit the sites of our old humiliations, reread (without the aid of spectacles) our own misjudgments. And we do, believing that it was there, in our past, that our last best chance for happiness lay hidden; that somewhere in that thicket, now dense with self-recrimination and foolishness, trickled a freshet of joy powerful enough to redeem us. — Mark Slouka

We're all such products — Chuck Palahniuk

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.' — Debby Ryan

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. — Diane Von Furstenberg

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom — Jack Dee

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently. — Nia Long

Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country heading towards ... I don't know if anyone's reading it, but poets are still flying around the country going from lectern to lectern.That circuitry has become very well-established. — Billy Collins

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain
and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful. — Neal Shusterman

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me. — Randy Newman