Virginia Postrel Quotes

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceEnoughStudyingPolicyEven

There were always other children in our house, even though I'm an only child - there were always these other kids coming by.

Jeryl Prescott

ChildrenChildHouseAlwaysComing

I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.

Andre Aciman

LoveBetterNothingEmailPaper

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

IntelligenceIntellectSuperiorAgree

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Matt Taibbi

StupidEndForestBadBeginLaws

I'm an artist through and through.

Amanda Seales

ArtistThrough

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.

Steve Rushin

WorldStoneDownNewTopStarting

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Steve Tisch

MorningEyesPeopleWorldTelevision

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Rutherford B. Hayes

EducationPowerEffortLawDead

The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.

Michael Moss

FoodWalkYourselfGovernmentHelp

If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.

Polly Walker

GoodGreatFoodQualityAmazing

People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.

Shiloh Fernandez

PeopleInternetRumorsUpMakeThem

The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind.

Scott Pruitt

RespectResponsibilityBlessedWorld

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