Elie Metchnikoff Quotes

Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

Elie Metchnikoff

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• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Actually
  • Radical

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Live
  • Man
  • Food

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Tea
  • Head

• It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Naive

• For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Certain
  • Scenes

• Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Long
  • Family

• There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Woman
  • Beach
  • Dress

• I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • Done
  • Past

• People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Community

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • Common Sense

• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Stronger
  • Defence
  • NATO

• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Art
  • War

• Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Time
  • High
  • Prom

• I'm not really good at anyone's songs but my own.

  

  Lia Ices
  • Good

• I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Funny
  • Lost

• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff