Bonnie Bassler quote: "I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization."

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're l...
BONNIE BASSLER

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
BONNIE BASSLER

Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, wh...
BONNIE BASSLER

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.
BONNIE BASSLER

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.
BONNIE BASSLER

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our lo...
BONNIE BASSLER

Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of ...
BONNIE BASSLER

Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin po...
BONNIE BASSLER

What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're...
BONNIE BASSLER

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.
BONNIE BASSLER

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we ...
BONNIE BASSLER

I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for y...
BONNIE BASSLER

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.
BONNIE BASSLER

If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will ...
BONNIE BASSLER

It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no...
BONNIE BASSLER

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, exce...
BONNIE BASSLER

We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help ...
BONNIE BASSLER

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals an...
BONNIE BASSLER

All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They p...
BONNIE BASSLER

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up o...
BONNIE RAITT

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
BONNIE WRIGHT

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broa...
BONNIE BEDELIA

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like...
BONNIE RAITT

Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.
BONNIE HAMMER

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good s...
BONNIE RAITT

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came i...
BONNIE BEDELIA

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together...
BONNIE RAITT

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
BONNIE MCKEE

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers ...
BONNIE RAITT

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked ...
BONNIE BLAIR

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
BONNIE HUNT

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by travel...
BONNIE RAITT

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but w...
BONNIE SOMERVILLE

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't...
BONNIE TYLER

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There&...
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.
BONNIE TYLER

Thank God for Botox.
BONNIE TYLER

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people ...
BONNIE TYLER

I've been successful, but I haven't had any unwanted attention. To be honest, I've never...
BONNIE TYLER

I don't do every song that comes my way; I'm very choosy.
BONNIE TYLER

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rat...
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
BONNIE TYLER

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren...
BONNIE TYLER

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren&...
BONNIE TYLER

I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Gra...
BONNIE TYLER

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon...
BONNIE TYLER

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all ov...
BONNIE TYLER

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
BONNIE TYLER

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
BONNIE TYLER

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.
BONNIE TYLER

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me a...
BONNIE TYLER

Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excite...
BONNIE TYLER

I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.
BONNIE TYLER

I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, a...
BONNIE TYLER

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get moti...
BONNIE TYLER

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
BONNIE BLAIR

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many char...
BONNIE TYLER

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
BONNIE RAITT

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad wa...
BONNIE HUNT

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving ...
BONNIE TYLER

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
BONNIE BLAIR

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
BONNIE BLAIR

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
BONNIE BLAIR

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.
BONNIE BLAIR

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.
BONNIE BLAIR

You have to have the right mind-set.
BONNIE BLAIR

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
BONNIE BLAIR

I don't fear anything.
BONNIE BLAIR

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
BONNIE BLAIR

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
BONNIE BLAIR

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and f...
BONNIE BLAIR

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long trac...
BONNIE BLAIR

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in t...
BONNIE BLAIR

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've alway...
BONNIE BLAIR

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.
BONNIE BLAIR

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how i...
BONNIE BLAIR

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goa...
BONNIE BLAIR

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've e...
BONNIE BLAIR

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the nativ...
BONNIE RAITT

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun....
BONNIE BEDELIA

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, th...
BONNIE HUNT

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold...
BONNIE WRIGHT

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets h...
BONNIE HAMMER

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a...
BONNIE LANGFORD

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cata...
BONNIE RAITT

I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.
BONNIE LANGFORD

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge....
BONNIE BEDELIA

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
BONNIE BLAIR

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their t...
BONNIE RAITT

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fou...
BONNIE HAMMER

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half an...
BONNIE RAITT

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
BONNIE RAITT

I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents...
BONNIE MCKEE

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were fr...
BONNIE TYLER

This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person wh...
BONNIE HAMMER

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steame...
BONNIE RAITT

I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I pr...
BONNIE HUNT

For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I...
BONNIE LANGFORD

I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It...
BONNIE RAITT

I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'
BONNIE HUNT

Our bench has got to get better. We're not getting enough production. That's been our Achilles heel ...
BONNIE HENRICKSON

This was a chance to redeem ourselves. I thought this game couldn't have come at a better time.
BONNIE HENRICKSON

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're ...
BONNIE HENRICKSON

We don't want to burn the series out. We want to make sure that (the producers) don't come to us wit...
BONNIE HAMMER

As anyone knows,
BONNIE HAMMER

Theatrical' keeps coming back to me, ... Something well done, well written, fun, not depressing, not...
BONNIE HAMMER

I struggle with what comes next,
BONNIE HAMMER

Depending on what day you ask me,
BONNIE HAMMER

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger, ... Loved it from the literary point of view. But if some...
BONNIE HAMMER

was to integrate the company, so all the creative juices and goals were the same.
BONNIE HAMMER

We'd all been talking about how we could make the channel more accessible,
BONNIE HAMMER

There were a lot of negative perceptions of both the genre and who actually watched it, that it's fo...
BONNIE HAMMER

Next year we don't have the Olympics, so we'll be going straight through first quarter. But it's a p...
BONNIE HAMMER

It turned out that the sources that had been very good on other things were just wrong on this one, ...
BONNIE FULLER

We're all over this story. This is not going to go away.
BONNIE FULLER

The kind of picture that has a big value are of celebrities getting married. We don't knowingly purc...
BONNIE FULLER

They want to have a nickname for the couples because they feel as if they are part of the stars' ext...
BONNIE FULLER

We do care about some more than others. It's the fame factor and who, at the time, is particularly i...
BONNIE FULLER

We try always to be right, and in most cases we are.
BONNIE FULLER

It's the fame factor and who, at the time, is particularly in the news. If you've followed their liv...
BONNIE FULLER

I think these stories humanize celebrities and make our readers feel so much better because they can...
BONNIE FULLER

We are just having a lot of poles down and wires down. We haven't had a lot of flooding. We have had...
BONNIE CURTIS

I guessed I lived in somewhat of a dream world, because I used to think actors did things just to do...
BONNIE CURTIS

It helped that Lawrence Bender and I both had access to those people. I personally knew Rita and Ral...
BONNIE CURTIS

It's causing a lot of havoc. But it's really not too bad.
BONNIE CURTIS

Beyond making lemonade out of lemons it's the idea that out of destruction comes creation.
BONNIE CLEARWATER

I feel like a kid in a candy store. The possibilities are really endless.
BONNIE CLEARWATER

When we showed them, nobody cared. Most of them didn't even have galleries.
BONNIE CLEARWATER

The thing is the collectors still came. They got to visit the museums, the collections, the artists ...
BONNIE CLEARWATER

Our waitresses are smokers and our customers are smokers. Everybody's already losing money over this...
BONNIE CAMPBELL

My perspective on this lawsuit is that it's just wrong.
BONNIE CAMPBELL

We've had so much fun, and we can't thank Santa Barbara enough for welcoming us.
BONNIE CAMPBELL

There is no question that (the law) is making a difference.
BONNIE CAMPBELL

Companies that made lead pigments decades and decades ago can hardly be held (responsible) because a...
BONNIE CAMPBELL

And as a practical matter it's unseemly.
BONNIE CAMPBELL

They are a treasure trove.
BONNIE BURATTI

This is the smoking gun.
BONNIE BURATTI

We want to make sure we are far enough away so we don't hit it.
BONNIE BURATTI

We'll learn more about the relationship between the rings and satellites...and a lot of the models t...
BONNIE BURATTI

One of the most fundamental questions we want to answer during this mission [is] the relationship be...
BONNIE BURATTI

As a member of the arts community in New Jersey, we realized the importance of the fact that if one ...
BONNIE BROWN

Gives you a chance to get ahead.
BONNIE BROWN

We just all feel so terrible and want to help out any way we can. We're trying to get her back on he...
BONNIE BROWN

Wachovia is an interesting case. They came from behind [in last year's study]. They had a redesign a...
BONNIE BROWN

If customers can't figure out how to do something, that's a loss, but the loss is bigger than the cu...
BONNIE BROWN

It turns out one of the major drivers of success is the design of the site. Some sites were beautifu...
BONNIE BROWN

If you're successful doing genealogy, there's a necessity to be organized. I also love working jigsa...
BONNIE BROTHERS

I have 10 to 15 volumes of names just connected to (my immediate family). I got so carried away with...
BONNIE BROTHERS

I have only one brother, but both my parents had huge families. (One of my grandmothers had) 44 gran...
BONNIE BROTHERS

I've heard people say, 'I wish I'd asked Mama.' When everybody dies, a certain amount of history is ...
BONNIE BROTHERS

This is very elementary. This is something someone can do to get started (plotting family history).
BONNIE BROTHERS

You may have to listen to a lot of stories before you get the data you need ... but it's up to the i...
BONNIE BROTHERS

If you're into genealogy, read the newspaper. If I don't read anything else in the newspaper, I read...
BONNIE BROTHERS

I travel enough that receiving faxes has always been a problem.
BONNIE BRADY

We are really hoping we are going to sell out.
BONNIE BRADY

Fundraising is not going too badly.
BONNIE BRADY

I'm not tied to the fax machine. I can pull up faxes on any computer I can get access to. It's strea...
BONNIE BRADY

After trying the pelvic floor exercises and other interventions, I simply wasn't gaining ground. My ...
BONNIE BLAIR

I was too embarrassed to say anything to my doctor or even to my husband. I got the courage to talk ...
BONNIE BLAIR

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with...
BONNIE BLAIR

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done bef...
BONNIE BLAIR

I'm not allowed to talk about him. His mother sent me an e-mail and told me not to talk about him. S...
BONNIE BLAIR

Our goal was to come back and win at least 12 medals in Turin. All the skaters who won medals are ba...
BONNIE BLAIR

Our goal was to come back and win at least 12 medals in Turin, ... All the skaters who won medals ar...
BONNIE BLAIR

When I went on my first run about two months after having my first child in 1998, I didn't get more ...
BONNIE BLAIR

I think she's got a great shot to probably not only medal in the 1,000 and the 1,500, but I think ev...
BONNIE BLAIR

He is such an advocate for us in his everyday job and life. And he does that daily, continuously and...
BONNIE ADAMS

She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.
BONNIE ADAMS

We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.
BONNIE ADAMS

This curriculum has been 14 years in the making. It has been adopted by a number of states as their ...
BONNIE ADAMS

It is such a shame what drugs can do when someone's mind is so altered.
BONNIE WILLIAMS

He's always wanted to have a candy store.
BONNIE WILLIAMS

We are there for people in need, providing services and they are at no cost to the recipients. We wa...
BONNIE WILLIAMS

We want to promote the Red Cross as well as recognize the extraordinary deeds of our neighbors.
BONNIE WILLIAMS

There are ordinary people throughout our community who perform extraordinary acts of courage and sel...
BONNIE WILLIAMS

We certainly hope to fill all of our nomination categories. And make an award in each of those categ...
BONNIE WILLIAMS

We buy our quality chicken from the same trusted brands as you do in the supermarkets, like Perdue, ...
BONNIE WARSCHAUER

KFC uses only the highest quality ingredients in all the meals we freshly prepare in our restaurant ...
BONNIE WARSCHAUER

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't see...
BONNIE TYLER

I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would ...
BONNIE TYLER

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.
BONNIE TYLER

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
BONNIE TYLER

It ain't wise to need someone -- As much as I depended on you.
BONNIE TYLER

It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always an outsider in that group. I don't drink coffee and when they get together, it's often ov...
BONNIE TYLER

Once upon a time I was falling in love but now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do, a t...
BONNIE TYLER

This is so blatantly racist.
BONNIE THOMPSON

It's no fun to read a book, and have no one to discuss it with.
BONNIE THOMPSON

We're like an English class.
BONNIE THOMPSON

This whole story is based on nothing is black and white.
BONNIE THOMPSON

We really don't have money in a rural county like this.
BONNIE SUMMERS

You can see what the drug trade has done to this area.
BONNIE SUMMERS

I think that there were probably more folks from out of the area coming in and bringing the drug tra...
BONNIE SUMMERS

It has flooded the market.
BONNIE SUMMERS

I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.

Bonnie Bassler

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