Quotes of Shana Alexander - somelinesforyou

“ The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband! ”

- Shana Alexander

“ A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ I think especially in the jet age that the right to travel is a civil right and a human right which, except for health reasons, ought not to be restricted in any way. Why does the State Department have the right to issue passports? We are citizens. Not subjects. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ The mark of a true crush…is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ”

- Shana Alexander

“ At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. ”

- Shana Alexander
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