Virus Quotes

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

Love, Time, Happen

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom, Known, Contagious

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs

Business, Mind, Trouble

Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

Language, Space, Outer

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Die, Living, Earth

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
Wendell Mayes

Win, Through, Run

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Around, Between

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
Jeremiah Wright

Government, Against, Means

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock

Clever, Host, Stays

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
David Hasselhoff

Someone, Person, Play

People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
George A. Romero

Movies, Dead, Days

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
Jeffrey Kluger

Health, Best, History

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.
Tony Kushner

School, Friend, Him

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
Kary Mullis

Year, Spend, Mystery

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Jonas Salk

Sense, Cancer, Tried

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
Margaret Chan

Nature, Great, Unique

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
Luc Montagnier

Attention, Perhaps, Effect

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.
Luc Montagnier

Since, Sexual, Local

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
Michael Burgess

Change, Last, Year

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Craig Raine

Great, Powerful, Among

What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.
Luc Montagnier

Die, After, High

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
Serge Lang

Hiv, Eliminate, Screening

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Today, Forward, Point

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Successful, Trying, Against

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Nature, After, Following

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Year, Possible, Soon

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
Jeremiah Wright

Live, Living, Poverty

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Claudio Hummes

Die, Fact, Africa

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.
Glenn Turner

After, Computer

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?
Sara Gruen

Time, Great, Sad

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