Mary Doria Russell Quotes

It Seemed Entirely Possible To Him That Religion And Literature And Art And Music Were All Merely Side Effects Of A Brain Structure That Comes Into The World Ready To Make Language Out Of Noise, Sense Out Of Chaos. Our Capacity For Imposing Meaning, He Thought, Is Programmed To Unfold The Way A Butterfly's Wings Unfold When It Escapes The Chrysalis, Ready To Fly. We Are Biologically Driven To Create Meaning. And If That's So, He Asked Himself, Is The Miracle Diminished? It

Related Authors

• April Pearson
• Beverly Long
• Cathy Wiseman
• DJ Paul
• Ed Holder
• Jack Hitt
• Julie Gonzalo
• Mary J. Blige
• Nancy Jo Cullen
• Ram
• Siobhan Houston
• Terri Griffith

Related Topics

• Quotes About Friends Top 10

  Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends! — Walter Kirn

• Quotes About Why Love Hurts

  Why our story have no ending? — Shivi

• Civilized Manner Quotes

  The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow — Herman Melville

• Famous Inaugural Address Quotes

  The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return — Marianne Williamson

• Xc Quotes

  If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come: so shall I taste At first the — William Shakespeare