Panglossian Paradigm Quotes

#1. Where is the road to your heart?"
With one finger he lifted my chin to meet his eyes. "Don't you know? You're the one who paved it.

Laurelin Paige

#2. Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

Loretta Lynn

#4. It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

Edward Abbey

#5. If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

David Lehman

#6. God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Suzanne Farrell

#8. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Camille Paglia

#10. After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Sharon Stone

#11. I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.

Sandra Cisneros

#12. Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back. That

George R R Martin

#13. Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

Lindsey Vonn