Alexandra Petri Quotes

It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

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• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • Know
  • Changes

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Movie

• Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Art
  • Free
  • Finding

• I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Thought

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Kind

• Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Amazing
  • Being
  • Special

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time.

  

  Werley Nortreus
  • God
  • Religious
  • Righty

• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Sleep
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

  

  Amelia Warner
  • Party
  • Clubs
  • Houses

• You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • People

• It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

  

  Alexandra Petri