Carl Zimmer Quotes

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Carl Zimmer

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Different
  • Think
  • Animal

• I just don't stop working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Just

• I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.

  

  Dan Simmons

• I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Real
  • Job

• My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?

  

  Eminem
  • Down
  • Middle
  • Wave

• I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Life
  • Children
  • She

• Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Pirate

• I don't really trust a sane person.

  

  Lyle Alzado
  • Trust

• And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

  

  Matt Stone
  • America
  • Fun
  • Funny

• We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • Good
  • Today

• I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Good
  • Positive

• I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • High

• The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

  

  James J. Gibson
  • Time
  • Survival

• We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Survival
  • Monsters
  • Fascination

• I'm very non-partisan. I don't consider myself loyal to any party in Israel.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Party

• That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Point

• The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Survival
  • Depends
  • Viruses