"The impulse for personal adornment is hard to…" — Virginia Postrel

"The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out."

— Virginia Postrel

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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is…
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…

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More Adornment Quotes

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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all… — Tertullian
Valor is the soldier's adornment. — Livy
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. — Coco Chanel
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them.… — Immanuel Kant
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were)… — Erica Jong
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to… — Jean de la Bruyere
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much. — Lloyd Alexander
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the… — Paul Fussell
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with… — Isaac Barrow
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes… — David LaChapelle
The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment. — Sarah Hall

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