Borna Quotes

#1. It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#2. We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Dimitar Sasselov

#3. I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Emilio Estevez

#4. The River Swish

Deftly maneuvered through
the dark green abyss ~
The wooden raft seemed
in tune with this ~
Canorous rush of the
river swish....

Muse

#5. Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#6. I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

Robert Pattinson

#7. We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.

Carl Zimmer

#8. Embrace your fears. Don't let them keep you from moving forward.

Trish Blackwell

#9. In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

Herman Kahn

#10. understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger's powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.

Ada Palmer

#11. Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

Carl Zimmer

#12. Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

Robert Mondavi

#13. Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

Hannah Hurnard