Vanna Bonta Quotes - Page 6

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• Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

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  Artist, Years, Looks

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

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• On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.

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  Nausea, Earth, Gravity

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 31), August 1, 2006.

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• It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

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  Thinking, Humanity, Earth

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space", August 1, 2006.

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• Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

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  Discovery, Insanity, Survival

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• Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

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  Fashion, Style, Function

  "Vanna Bonta Presents Smart Fashion At NASA Ames Yuri's Night". Vanna Bonta's remarks at NASA Ames Research presentation (April 12, 2008), ireport.cnn.com. April 19, 2008.

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• I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

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  Intellectual

  "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel". Book by Vanna Bonta, June 1995.

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• Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

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  Zero, Animal, Earth

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 31), August 1, 2006.

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• If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

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  School, Thinking, Order

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 75), August 1, 2006.

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• It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

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  Thinking, Universality

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 76), August 1, 2006.

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• Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

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  Love, Hate, Inspire

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• Self worship is different from self love.

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  Love, Self, Different

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• Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

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  Life, Fiction, Stories

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

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  Literature, Genre, Be Good

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?.. It can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

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  Soul, Matter, Spirit

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

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  Fiction, Behinds, Our Lives

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• Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

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  Mathematics, Mystical

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

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  Recognition, Fellows, Values

  "State of the Art". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2000.

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• The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.

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  Pain, Names, Soul

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

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• The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

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  Men, Poet, Bizarre

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• The height of mediocrity is still low.

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  Mediocrity, Height, Lows

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• To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Degrees, Spaceships

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

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  Mean, Our Society, Ability

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• We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

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  Gardening, Ancestor, Universe

  "Space: what love’s got to do with it" by Vanna Bonta, www.thespacereview.com. October 25, 2004.

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• We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

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  Beautiful, Order, Chaos

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

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  Adventure, Shopping, Giving

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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