Alexandra Petri Quotes

If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.

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• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Me
  • Economic
  • Program

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Hand
  • Adventure
  • Go

• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Boy
  • Writer
  • Little

• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Nation

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lost

• You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • Possible

• For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Job

• 'What do you want?' the ape asked at last.'Nothing,' said Ervic.'You may have that!' retorted the ape

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May

• I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Work
  • Beginning

• Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Work
  • Freedom

• ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Door

• Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Preparation

• You don't have to you change yourself for somebody else to like you.

  

  Jenny Han

• A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • True

• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Science
  • Secret
  • Duty

• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Flame
  • Petroleum
  • Lard

• One of my favourite scents in the world is the 'Brown' candle from Hotel Costes in Paris. It smells like naughty nights in corners of clubs.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • World
  • Paris
  • Naughty

• My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my first book without a clinch cover came out, she said to me: 'Finally, a book I can read on the Metro.'

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • She
  • Book
  • Daughter

• If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.

  

  Alexandra Petri