Virginia Postrel Quotes

Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMusicAgePaintingBetterNew

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

Johanna Braddy

PlaceKindOverTimes

Statehood is not a model for economic development; it is simply a way to organize a federation. What statehood does in fiscal and economic terms is apply uniform rules of the game to all states.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

GameRulesUniformDevelopmentWay

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

Jeff Greenfield

MyselfCollegeThoughtBelieving

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.

Amanda Peet

LoveSomeoneFeelingDressedUp

So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.

Tom Shales

LifeNatureStruggleSleepFight

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Tom Felton

GreatExperienceTalentPeopleBig

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Roy Barnes

GreatResponsibilityPerfectionState

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

Michael Stuhlbarg

PassionSimplicityWorldBackRoyal

I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

Mindy Kaling

LoveSmartFightingSexNothingSee

It certainly would be helpful going forward for deficit reduction efforts to focus on the medium term while not subtracting from the impetus we need to keep a fragile economy moving forward.

Janet Yellen

FocusMoving ForwardMovingForward

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

Joni Mitchell

LifeChangePeopleCrazyDriveKey

It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.

Diplo

WorkFunnyGoodManMeForward

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