Virginia Postrel Quotes

Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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StarsPoliticsAmericanPolitical

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Maya Lin

ParentsBetterTeachUsOffEra

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Robert Southey

LifeLoveFlyDieVanitySin

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Angelina Grimke

LoveGodGreatMindSinDuty

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

Amanda de Cadenet

TruthMeEyeSheAskContact

I get teased a lot for my optimism.

Rob McClure

OptimismGetLotTeased

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

GoodAgeMeBackModestKnew

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Joshua Sylvester

LifeShadowsSayThey SayOutLamp

I'm not usually vain about my body. It's like Pennsylvania: The same way the Keystone State comprises Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with not much in between, I've got good legs and shapely eyebrows, and it's kind of a wasteland outside of that.

Josh Gondelman

GoodBodyPhiladelphiaKindWayGot

Oh, I am a prompt person!

Josh Hutcherson

I AmPersonOhPromptAm

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

Jonathan Brownlee

RoutinePersonChangesSomething

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

Dermot Mulroney

GreatDoingKnowWillNextCorner

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Douglas Feith

PurposeGovernmentGameFindTry

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