Mary Doria Russell Quotes

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

Mary Doria Russell

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Safety

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Journey

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Way
  • Nice
  • Competitive

• So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Way
  • Always
  • Camera

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Remember
  • Think

• Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Pleasures

• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Feeling

• God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.

  

  Jaime Ray Newman
  • God
  • Amazing

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Life
  • Up
  • God