Shana Alexander Quotes

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

Shana Alexander

• Marriage
• Spiritual
• Emotional
• Salvation
• Companionship
• Togetherness

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• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • College
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Me
  • Actor

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Opinions
  • Almost

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction

• I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Grow

• Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

  

  K. Flay
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Sometimes

• A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Revenge

• Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.

  

  Amber Benson

• We suffered a tragedy not one of us could have thought would happen in our country. And we picked ourselves up and sorted ourselves out as all good British people do, and I thought, let us stand together for we are British! They were trying to destroy the fundamental freedom that is the birth-right of every British citizen, freedom, justice and democracy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Done

• School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • Important
  • School
  • Confidence

• Crooks are early adopters.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Adopters

• Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.

  

  Eva Heller
  • Relationship
  • Expectations
  • Illusions

• There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional