Virginia Postrel Quotes

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TogetherLivingRiskTraumaSingle

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

Joe Gibbs

MondayYouLoseBadWantWashington

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

CollegeLondonDiaryTwoUniversity

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

Sting

MusicMyselfMeFeelBeenI Feel

I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect.

Michaela Coel

BelieveI CanKnowDefineSomething

I hate that word dysfunction.

Jonathan Franzen

HateWordDysfunction

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

Diane Greene

SeaVisionValueMeThinkMy Own

I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.

Chris Harris, Jr.

ManI CanPlayWantActiveZone

Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.

Clemantine Wamariya

LifeFightI AmPeopleMeTreat

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

Peter Benchley

LifeMeIdeasWritingEndMy Life

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

Richard Lederer

LifePassionAloneGreatIdeasBorn

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

GoodScienceMindBadGood And Bad

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

Martin McGuinness

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