Professor Pangloss Quotes & Sayings

I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other. — Karleen Koen

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. — Charles Caleb Colton

It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know nothing of it, and to see the criterion of truth in the approval of a government office. — Ludwig Von Mises

I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do. — Faith Hill

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Alice: Where Should I go?
Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up? — Lewis Carroll

In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas. — Arthur Frommer

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover. — Sophie Okonedo

He muttered, "ow," and burst into a cloud of green flame, which I figured was going to make Babycakes pretty upset. — Rick Riordan

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone. — Sara Blakely

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression. — F. LaGard Smith

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life. — Timbaland

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant. — Richard Jefferies