Virginia Postrel Quotes

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeBeautifulGracePromisesMagic

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

Jim DeMint

SupportPartyWashingtonMy OwnOwn

My brother and I are best friends.

Joel Edgerton

BestBrotherFriends

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

Matt Taibbi

PoliticsCrazyChanceAmericanYou

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Jeff Tweedy

LifeStarsMusicRelationshipWorld

It's not a male-dominated anything... It's WWE, and it's for anybody.

Stephanie McMahon

AnythingWWEAnybody

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

Simon Cowell

BusinessThinkUnhappyDoingYou

If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else.

Trombone Shorty

MusicStyleDanceFunArtistJazz

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Traian Basescu

WillAfghanistanContinueRomania

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

Tommy Lee Jones

LifeLiveUseAnyPersonally

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Louisa May Alcott

ManFunDriveYouKnowSay

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

Josh Hopkins

LifeActorLuckyAdultWorkingBeen

More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the boozy equivalent of the water left over from cleaning watercolor brushes.

Jonathan Miles

WaterCleaningMoreOverLeftThan

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