Virginia Postrel Quotes

Our eyes and brains pretty consistently like some human forms better than others. Shown photos of strangers, even babies look longer at the faces adults rank the best-looking.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EyesBetterLookStrangersOthers

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

Joe Bonamassa

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I have broken a lot of stories.

Robert Scheer

BrokenStoriesLot

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

QualityWinePerfectProfessional

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.

Amor Towles

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My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel.

Steven Levy

MusicGeniusPerfectSometimesWheel

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.

Sidney Buchman

WorkActionProblemsPoliticalParty

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

Tom DeLonge

WalkFirePeopleWrongStageOff

Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.

Riz Ahmed

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Just like I am a food snob, I am also a rabbinical snob.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

Janice Dickinson

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When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

Diane Kruger

RomanticCrazyThoughtGoAlways

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Chelsea Clinton

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