Quotes

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

Shana Alexander

The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

Shana Alexander

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Shana Alexander

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

Shana Alexander

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Shana Alexander

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

Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shana Alexander

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

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

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

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

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

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Sholom Aleichem

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Sholom Aleichem

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Sholom Aleichem

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich