Word Virus Quotes

#1. The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word.

Carl Zimmer

#2. Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

Doug Stanhope

#3. The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

Girma Woldegiorgis

#4. Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers of this land came came in search of religious freedom. Landing on a desolate shoreline, they established a spiritual foundation that has served us ever since.

Ronald Reagan

#5. With the geosynchronous orbit, the RAE Table maxes out. It has two answers for the orbital lifetime of a spacecraft in GSO: "greater than a million years" and "indefinite.

Trevor Paglen

#6. Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Jasper Fforde

#7. I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.

William S. Burroughs

#9. Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

Robert G. Thompson

#10. The soul's journey is from Oneness into separation, ultimately to return to Oneness."
~ Leonard Jacobson

Leonard Jacobson

#11. I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Kate Beckinsale

#12. I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

Heber J. Grant

#13. The word is now a virus.

William S. Burroughs