Virginia Postrel Quotes

Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FoodServiceTravelDressClouds

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Joe Bob Briggs

DrunkCrimeGet

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

Jesse Ventura

YouWealthCreateLostKnowTop

I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?

Jerry Lewis

GovernmentPeopleCareTake CareWhy

I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.

John Waters

FamilyGoodUncleAlwaysNephews

Emotions always play a part, especially on Champions League nights at the Bernabeu.

Toni Kroos

EmotionsChampionsPlayAlwaysPart

A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound.

Ry Cooder

GoodSpaceNiceWillCaptureSound

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

Michael K. Williams

WorkTimeFocusJobKindEverything

Hillary herself has said that before it was called Obamacare, it was called Hillarycare. She probably isn't so happy with that comparison now, is she?

Milo Yiannopoulos

HappySaidNowSheComparison

My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'

Doris Kearns Goodwin

MeBookSayingLongYouWrong

I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.

Chick Corea

GreatSupportWonderMeanHimPiano

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Clifford D. Simak

TechnologyPathPresentNewMankind

I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.

Clarence Clemons

MeNothingMellowMuchFellow

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