Prion Quotes

#1. Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

D.T. Max

#2. Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#3. I want him to explain a few things to me, before I beat the prion-whatevers out of him.

Lia Habel

#4. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.

David Quammen

#5. To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Paul Merson

#6. There is no question about it now. I'm in love.

Daniel Keyes

#7. Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.

Carl Forti

#8. So, how come Jacob Black gets to
give you a gift and I don't?
Because I have nothing
to give back to you.
Bella, you give me everything
just by breathing.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.

Ed Martin

#10. Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

Tom Lantos

#12. Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#13. We're organisms; we're conceived, we're born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria.

William M. Bass

#14. The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received.

Bernie Sanders

#15. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold