Vanna Bonta
Vanna Bonta is an American novelist and poet noted for Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), the first definitive work that coined the 21st century literary genre "quantum fiction." Bonta wrote poetry and short fiction from the age of six, penning several prize-winning poetry collections and essays. Bonta played a cameo role as the hero's young mother in the fantasy feature film, The Beastmaster. She is credited as a voice talent in feature movies such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Demolition Man, and The Twilight Zone. She is the inventor of the 2Suit, a spacesuit which she tested in zero gravity on The Universe series for the History Channel documentary episode about humanity colonizing planets beyond Earth.
19 Quotes
There is no hospitality like understanding.
— Vanna Bonta
The true poem rests between the words.
— Vanna Bonta
Popularity is not an indication of quality.
— Vanna Bonta
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.
— Vanna Bonta
I'm in love with the whole world.
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Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
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I consider myself more exportant than important.
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God and I were nude.
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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.
— Vanna Bonta
I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart†(coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality.
— Vanna Bonta
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome
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Impossible' is not a scientific term.
— Vanna Bonta
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
— Vanna Bonta
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
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon
— Vanna Bonta
Love is the eternal first breath.
— Vanna Bonta
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.
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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.
— Vanna Bonta
I suppose it would be a lot easier if a training manual were issued at puberty. Chapter One: what your body is feeling isn't necessarily you.
— Vanna Bonta