Microbes And Infection Quotes & Sayings

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. — Hans Hofmann

Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys. — Michael Pollan

Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again. — Michael Shannon

I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having fun, they're going to give it everything they got. — Tracy Letts

I'm not used to being at a loss for words. — Bree Despain

I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked. — Odette Annable

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na

Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect. — Daniel Coyle

I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women. — Amber Tamblyn

Boldness is a crucial element of genius. — Horace Freeland Judson

Oh I know what they say about us in town, and I say, the hell with them! I tell you, I don't give a damn. I have got to be an old woman in the twinkling of an eye, and it is sort of a relief, I can tell you. I do what I want to now. Last week I traded all our eggs for ice cream at Holden's Grocery. Now that I have shrunk down little as a child, I figure I might as well act like one. I don't care. I like ice cream. Juney does too. We like to put bourbon in it, and make ourselves a milkshake. — Lee Smith

Or to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru vs. tar oil for wound infection. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Still, each generation of physicians imagined that ignorance was the special provenance of their elders. — Abraham Verghese