Vanna Bonta Quotes (205 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

NASA Ames presentation, April 12, 2008 Vanna Bonta Presents Smart Fashion At NASA Ames Yuri's Night http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-13127 CNN i Report, April 19, 2008

Fashion , Future

“Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.”

Vanna Bonta

"Hearts"
Shades of the World (1985)

Heart

“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

People , Reality

Vanna Bonta Quotes

“Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting.”

Vanna Bonta

Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Art , Music , Dance , Painting

“As a global society, befriending one another in the interchange of what we each have to offer will support a renascence of our humanity.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

Support

“I wished to dub as Masters: Love, Truth, Serenity. They'd feed and house and teach me with total sovereignty.”

Vanna Bonta

"On the Avenue"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

Love , Truth , Housing

“As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 29

Effort , Help

“There are infinite possibilities.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one’s own ability to create.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

Confidence , Loss

“The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Reality

“When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

Money , Sense , Personality

“Pythagoras' idea of the transmigration of the soul is central.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Soul , Idea

“When real intimacy occurs, any where, any how, it comes close to feeling we live forever, and we are not alone.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

Feeling

“There is also something more […] because as humans we possess, call it reason, spirit, consciousness, what ever, it's a numinous element beyond the perfunctory form following function.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

Love

“Love is a quality, not a quantity.”

Vanna Bonta

Shades of the World (1985)

Love

“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.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 31

Animals

“Through characters, non-linear plot lines, or the involvement of multiple dimensions, it ultimately witnesses the physical world as inextricable from consciousness or the observer of that world.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

World

“I said, "…it is quantum fiction." The first line of the story is "Which came first, the observer or the particle?"”

Vanna Bonta

and it goes from there.
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“In z-g, fluids redistribute to the upper body.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“Understanding precedes peace.”

Vanna Bonta

Shades of the World (1985)

Peace , Understanding

“Have you, with your work, made anyone glow? Erupted their sorrow? Evicted their woe? Have you been anyone's consolation through a night? Have you evoked unrehearsed emotion? Chiseled a crack in someone's encasement and watched them escape? Followed the muses wherever they led? Kept on creating when left for dead? Do not bother me with punctuation until you have earned your degree.”

Vanna Bonta

"To Some Critics"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Night , Dead

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

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Literature

“Essentially Flight is just an adventure of multiple realities.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Reality

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

Vanna Bonta

Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

People

“The ability to do, to make, to generate and contribute is the essence of a human being.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

“What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Appearance

“You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.”

Vanna Bonta

"Where No Word Can Travel"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

Pain , Travel , Reading

“Poetry is a transfusion of the ephemeral blood that sustains the universal heartbeat within human society.”

Vanna Bonta

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Universe

“Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.”

Vanna Bonta

The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)

“At the end of a person's life that's what they are looking at. What happened inside? How did that experience change me, and how did I change it?”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Life , Change , Personality

“The social value of a poem is proved not by marketing or reviews but by enduring resonance, a process that occurs as a response over time by humanity.”

Vanna Bonta

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Time

“Sure, the sheer animal aspect of our physicality is an intrinsic component of what we are.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

Animals

“Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in.”

Vanna Bonta

Shades of the World (1985)

Soul

“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.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 75

Life , School , Thinking , Universe

“The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.”

Vanna Bonta

"Do I Have To?"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Disease

“Our trust exchanged dependency.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 1

Dependency

“In lunar gravity, it was easy to do one-handed push ups and somersault effortlessly.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“I mean, after a certain age you figure out just because a button works doesn't mean you have to push it.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

Age

“Which came first — the observer or the particle?”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Preface
Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

“Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.”

Vanna Bonta

Zero Gravity interview (2006)

Sense

“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.”

Vanna Bonta

"Inversion"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Appearance

“The pending direction of society rests more than any time in recorded history on the fulcrum of a human finger.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

History , Time

“Impossible' is not a scientific term.”

Vanna Bonta

Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)

“Fame factories develop and promote hip icons who exude superior airs.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

“Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 75

Sex

“Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.”

Vanna Bonta

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

“Romantically speaking, the idea of lovers experiencing the ultimate orgasmic rapture while floating in zero gravity is a metaphor.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

Lovers , Idea

“Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Literature , Universe

“Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 29

Kiss , Personality

“We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.”

Vanna Bonta

Comment by Bonta on her blog, tweet about social media and World Party Day.[citation needed]

War , World , Time

“Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.”

Vanna Bonta

The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)

Imagination

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