Shana Alexander Quotes

Most popular Shana Alexander Quotes

Good drama should sandpaper the mind. - Shana Alexander quote.
Good drama should sandpaper the mind.
— Shana Alexander Talking Woman

drama

Letters are expectation packed in an envelope. - Shana Alexander quote.
Letters are expectation packed in an envelope.
— Shana Alexander Life

letters

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander quote.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
— Shana Alexander Life

excellence

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Shana Alexander quote.
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
— Shana Alexander

gossip

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love. - Shana Alexander quote.
The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
— Shana Alexander Talking Woman

sex

Hair is sexy.  Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. - Shana Alexander quote.
Hair is sexy.  Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground.
— Shana Alexander

hair self-image

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. - Shana Alexander quote.
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. - Shana Alexander quote.
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
— Shana Alexander Talking Woman

truth half-truth

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband! - Shana Alexander quote.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
— Shana Alexander

marriage women's rights

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. - Shana Alexander quote.
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
— Shana Alexander Talking Woman

gossip

California is once-and-future America, and much that is newest and biggest in this country, both its best and worst, is concentrated along our western edge. - Shana Alexander quote.
California is once-and-future America, and much that is newest and biggest in this country, both its best and worst, is concentrated along our western edge.
— Shana Alexander Talking Woman

California

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 quote.
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 Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album

ballet

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. - Shana Alexander quote.
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.
— Shana Alexander The Feminine Eye

airplanes

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 wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. - Shana Alexander quote.
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 wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
— Shana Alexander Life

Travel