Shana Alexander Quotes

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

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• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Beautiful
  • Dreams
  • Green

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Will

• I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Clay
  • Surfaces

• I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Small
  • Action
  • Creative

• The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• 'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Smart

• They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• You shape your own destiny.

  

  Chet Atkins
  • Destiny

• I write in a rush of memory.

  

  Brent Runyon

• We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

  

  Billy Beane
  • Risk
  • Path
  • Insurance

• I go to the gym four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour without fail; I like using weights for muscle tone and the bike and rower for my heart rate. I do quite a lot of floor exercises.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Heart
  • Gym
  • Bike

• When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Example
  • Moved
  • Olympics

• Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Natural
  • Giggle
  • Airs

• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Trying
  • Marriage
  • Lawyer

• I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Enemy
  • Natural
  • Lawyer