Virginia Postrel Quotes

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappyWaitingBookEnoughAppleNew

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

John Bruton

IntelligencePoolSituationCreating

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

Joel Salatin

RespectMottoHousePigChickenOur

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

Max Azria

YouPriceSayPointPositionSell

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

CharacterYouFinishEmptyFilm

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

John Trudell

GoodHomePastPeopleYouKnow

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

Shinzo Abe

PositiveChildrenMoneyPeopleNeed

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Robert De Niro

SimplePeopleThinkYouBackGo

I went to college, and I didn't want to be in a sorority, so I started working in restaurants. In my mind, that was my social outlet.

Christina Tosi

MindCollegeWantStartedWorking

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

Piers Corbyn

DieYouKnowYearsOutUsed

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

Richard Morris

SongSilentNothingFallingAgain

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Marilyn Manson

PeopleThinkYouLookLooksWant

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

HappinessPeopleUnhappyThingsFine

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