Virginia Postrel Quotes

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingBuildingStonePaperInk

As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

Joe Montana

OpportunityMeWinningChanceBetter

I love Rome. I'm very happy there. I wasn't in New York.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LoveNew YorkHappyNewRomeVery

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

John Frankenheimer

YouTroubleRealWellCast

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Andrew Greeley

ScienceTestArtsGoingInterested

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.

Matteo Manassero

ChildParentsPeopleMeGolfPlay

My name is Matthew Walker, I am a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and I am the author of the book 'Why We Sleep.'

Matthew Walker

SleepI AmBookNameWhyCalifornia

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

Steve Harvey

MyselfPlanNeverBeingSaw

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

Trae Young

GoodMeAdviceSomeoneLookBad

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

Michael Mullen

ResponsibilityThinkInformationTake

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

Ludivine Sagnier

GoodHappyYearLongFindRare

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

Joseph Lancaster

ChildrenParentsCostWhoMillion

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

Chesty Puller

SportsHurtYouHit

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