Quotes by Virginia Postrel

Explore a curated collection of 34 quotes by Virginia Postrel. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, ad — Virginia Postrel
What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that — Virginia Postrel
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities — Virginia Postrel
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, — Virginia Postrel
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand ges — Virginia Postrel
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most im — Virginia Postrel
Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age ha — Virginia Postrel
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a so — Virginia Postrel
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienati — Virginia Postrel
Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. — Virginia Postrel
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it us — Virginia Postrel
Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread — Virginia Postrel
Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place. — Virginia Postrel
The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - t — Virginia Postrel
Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on — Virginia Postrel
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical i — Virginia Postrel
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances — Virginia Postrel
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon — Virginia Postrel
The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities libe — Virginia Postrel
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, diss — Virginia Postrel