Alexandra Petri Quotes
Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
Alexandra Petri
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Paris Hilton
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
Nathan Fillion
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
Taron Egerton
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
Lara Giddings
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
Ike Skelton
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J. G. Ballard
I love girl power.
Pam Bondi
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
Alex Berenson
We wouldn't be where we are without people loving our music.
Cole Swindell
Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
Becky Lynch
Most of my really strong friendships are with people I've known all my life.
Bel Powley
I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.
Douglas Tompkins
Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
Alexandra Petri
