Virginia Postrel Quotes

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ControlCuriosityMoviesChildlike

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

Jim Cramer

LifeEyesBetterDoneBuyThings

The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.

Joe Bonamassa

SpringYouFallWatchYourTour

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

Andrea Mackris

WalkDayBookThinkBackSay

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

Mawra Hocane

LifeMy LifeLazyWantBeingWaste

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

John Shelton Reed

DriveBarbecueChangesEuropeMiles

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Roger McGuinn

GoodMemoryHappyGood Memory

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

Rufus Sewell

ChangeMeThinkI CanActorGoing

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.

Jean Alesi

GoodDriveYouCornerPositionSure

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

Cory Gardner

TimePurposeGovernmentPlace

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

Bob Odenkirk

NiceSeriouslyIndependentBeen

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

Anurag Kashyap

LifeCollegeThinkLongKnowWant

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Alfred Kazin

EducationPracticeMedicineLook

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