Mary Doria Russell Quotes

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Mary Doria Russell

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• In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • You
  • Something
  • Melody

• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Sky
  • Blue

• Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Love
  • Moments

• I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Live
  • Newspaper
  • Bubble

• It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Comedy

• Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People

• I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Up
  • Connection

• The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

  

  James Cameron
  • World
  • Forest
  • Snake

• I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Children

• I'm a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Athlete

• Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Live
  • Art

• I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Time
  • Age
  • Technology

• What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.

  

  Ken Goldberg
  • World
  • Interesting

• To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.

  

  Enrico Letta
  • Great
  • Country
  • Leaving

• I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive.

  

  Anne Meara
  • People
  • Up

• The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Wind
  • Ashes
  • Thrilling

• There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Life
  • Biblical
  • Area

• For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

  

  Amy Davidson
  • Government
  • Worldview
  • Vindication

• We have tried for centuries to look deeper and deeper into finding causes and explanations, and suddenly, when we go to the very depths, to the behavior of individual particles of individual quanta, we find that this search for a cause comes to an end. There is no cause. In my eyes, this fundamental indeterminateness of the universe has not really been integrated into our worldview yet.

  

  Anton Zeilinger
  • Worldview
  • Explanations
  • Quanta

• In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Worldview
  • Filers
  • Pilers