Virginia Postrel Quotes

Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveBeautyWomenHopeYouthSex

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison

WriteBecauseLooseLikeProse

People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

Andrew Haigh

PeopleBeing DifferentThinkTalking

When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.

Jeff Ross

LightPeopleShineTalkingYouBad

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Amar'e Stoudemire

ThinkMatureMoreLittleGuyThan

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

Steve King

MoneyRoadBuiltCreatedEveryJobs

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

JobWordsRealityMeaningYouUp

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Mary McGrory

ManHairGenerationGrowAmerica

You do your work, and you do the best you can. That's what my parents taught me, and I think what they were saying was, 'If you do a good job, other things may come your way.' That's really been the way my career has unfolded throughout the years.

Judy Smith

WorkGoodBestJobParentsMe

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Bob Edwards

HomeBedGoUpGetAgain

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Thomas Moore

SweetLostFadeBrightMustMade

In my worldview, time is energy that you can invest in things, and money is energy that you can invest. Time has significantly more leverage than money in terms of how much energy you get out of time.

Tobias Lutke

TimeMoneyEnergyYouMoreLeverage

In the UFC, at first we were like a family, but then it turned corporate. In Bellator, we're family.

Tito Ortiz

FamilyFirstCorporateLikeUFC

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