Shana Alexander Quotes

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

• Love
• Wonder
• Holiday
• Vacation
• Astonishment

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• Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

  

  J Allard
  • People
  • Music
  • Video Games

• Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Health
  • Financial
  • Debt

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Unhappy

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• Practice puts brains in your muscles.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Practice
  • Fitness
  • Brains

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Technology
  • Will

• Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Find
  • Grateful
  • Be Grateful

• In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Small
  • Space
  • Simple

• But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • World
  • True
  • Young

• Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Good
  • Age
  • Father

• People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • World
  • Reading
  • Always

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Art
  • Beauty

• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Food

• I don't think we're wasting people in space.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

  

  Nathaniel Fick
  • People
  • Night
  • Goal

• 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
  • Love
  • Wonder
  • Holiday