Shana Alexander Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Shana Alexander Quotes
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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

Shana Alexander
Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.

Shana Alexander
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Shana Alexander
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts...

Shana Alexander
The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

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

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

Shana Alexander
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

Shana Alexander
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

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

Shana Alexander
The metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Shana Alexander
The mark of a true crush (whether the object is man, woman or city) is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Shana Alexander
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Shana Alexander
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

Shana Alexander
Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Shana Alexander
The real weakness of all porn, it seems to me, is its necessary repetition... the pornographer must continually invent new sauces for old meats.

Shana Alexander
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of you begins yearning not for a mortal doctor but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander
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
She will not be interrupted. Break into her train of thought, and she simply starts over. From the top. It is like trying to hold a conversation with a cassette.

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
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 should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Shana Alexander
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

Shana Alexander