All Shana Alexander Quotes
- The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. Afterward
- The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Excellence
- Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… Constitution
- 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. Astrology
- When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. Eye
- This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for… Astonishment
- 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… Amid
- Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Envelope
- 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… All
- The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. Compelling
- The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for… Becoming
- The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love. Capacity
- Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. All
- I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. Believe
- Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices Brings
- What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It… Difficult
- The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. Changes
- Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . . America
- Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. Evolution
- trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. Bell
- The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. Engravings
- I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is Believe