Virginia Postrel Quotes

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildhoodIntelligenceAppreciation

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

John Berry

GoodMoneyMenBetterBankCapable

A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.

John Ortberg

GodPeaceSoulPeoplePersonWhole

I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.

Ann Rinaldi

ThinkDiaryEveryoneReadI Think

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

Ron White

PeopleSayHumanSameUsedRegional

If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the 'first-sale.' The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908.

Marvin Ammori

ControlSomeoneYouOverWithout

It's hard to start from the bottom.

Lou Duva

StartHardBottom

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

Jay London

IdentityMeWorryNeedTheftWants

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it's really about time management. And so the smartest filmmakers are the ones who sort of pre-visualize the film in their head and are literally shooting the shots they need to cut the story together.

Jay Chandrasekhar

TimeDayTogetherManagementStory

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

Joseph Mawle

PeopleYouActingUnderstandComing

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

DMX

EnergyThinkDoingWasteJustHow

I haven't been perfect.

Columbus Short

PerfectBeen

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

RespectQualityManEvolutionSay

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