Virginia Postrel Quotes

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChallengeYouNewLettersSomething

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

Jimmy Butler

GoodRealityWishBadPlayWant

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

Maxine Hong Kingston

I AmLookSometimesOldLikeDoes

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.'

Andy Murray

LoveWorldThinkCareerSayStage

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

Andy Roddick

PeopleTeamOpportunitiesPlayGuy

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

Amitava Kumar

CreativeWritingBadGoalNewWay

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.

Troy Carter

WorldOpportunitiesBlackHustleSee

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Mason Cooley

YouFlatteryWantQuestionInsults

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

Michael Scheuer

ManCareTake CareWorryEnemyHim

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Miranda Otto

WorkMotherWifeSomeoneIntelligent

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Loretta Lynn

TimeFirst TimeFirstHimSoldier

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

Joshua Cohen

DayPeopleNightQuestionsCredit

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Brene Brown

PeopleMeIdeasCriticismOwnership

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