Virginia Postrel Quotes

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim,' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I think it's important to have mystique.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.