Virginia Postrel Quotes

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

PositiveVisionExperienceQuality

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Jim Hodges

RelationshipMyselfDrawingMouth

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Jeremy London

CoolTryNeedOutActHang

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

John M. Ford

MeMeanDecideThingsSeemsShow

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Robert Smithson

ArtArtistsThemselvesOutput

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Matthew Modine

PeopleMediaNewsAfricaUpWhere

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

Stephenie Meyer

LoveRomanticLove IsMeWriting

We were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I'd get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn't like me, either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.

Roisin Murphy

HomeMyselfSchoolHappyAmazingMe

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Luke Ford

TimeHabitSpaceIsolationFar Away

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

Douglass North

OpportunityWarMeReadingThree

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

Bobby Jindal

WorkWinningStrategyPartyNeed

I've always been, I guess, pretty cool.

Brooks Koepka

CoolAlwaysPrettyBeenGuess

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.

Pim Fortuyn

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