Virginia Postrel Quotes

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

QVC has been very good to me.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.