Shana Alexander Quotes (19 quotations)
1. An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts. - Shana Alexander
2. At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. - Shana Alexander
3. Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. - Shana Alexander
4. Every member of the inner ballet world, the entire peerage-pantheon of high culture-bearers, ladies bountiful, fiscal bigwigs, serious artists, jet-set sprinters, fading Tsarists, prima donnas, prime aesthetes, bursting stuffed-shirts, and the whole train of strenuous social mountaineers puffing uphill behind them all knew that Frances Schreuder was the great work's sole, albeit anonymous underwriter. - Shana Alexander
5. Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. - Shana Alexander
6. I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. - Shana Alexander
7. Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. - Shana Alexander
8. The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. - Shana Alexander
9. The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. - Shana Alexander
10. The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. - Shana Alexander
11. The players are from central casting: a small-town lawyer with the biggest case of his lifetime, an up-tight young prosecutor in steel-rimmed glasses, a folksy and politically correct judge, a long parade of faltering witnesses, a defendant who looks like Constance Bennett and, for a jury, a double row of Archie and Edith Bunkers, a third of them black. - Shana Alexander
12. The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander
13. The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture. - Shana Alexander
14. Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Shana Alexander
15. Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. Terpsichore was condemned to the chimney corner, and there she languished until the early 1930s, when Lincoln Kirstein, founding father of the New York City Ballet, stole Balanchine from Europe in the manner of Prometheus stealing fire. - Shana Alexander
16. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. - Shana Alexander
17. What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too. - Shana Alexander
18. When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect. - Shana Alexander
19. When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. - Shana Alexander
2. At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. - Shana Alexander
3. Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. - Shana Alexander
4. Every member of the inner ballet world, the entire peerage-pantheon of high culture-bearers, ladies bountiful, fiscal bigwigs, serious artists, jet-set sprinters, fading Tsarists, prima donnas, prime aesthetes, bursting stuffed-shirts, and the whole train of strenuous social mountaineers puffing uphill behind them all knew that Frances Schreuder was the great work's sole, albeit anonymous underwriter. - Shana Alexander
5. Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. - Shana Alexander
6. I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. - Shana Alexander
7. Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. - Shana Alexander
8. The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. - Shana Alexander
9. The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. - Shana Alexander
10. The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. - Shana Alexander
11. The players are from central casting: a small-town lawyer with the biggest case of his lifetime, an up-tight young prosecutor in steel-rimmed glasses, a folksy and politically correct judge, a long parade of faltering witnesses, a defendant who looks like Constance Bennett and, for a jury, a double row of Archie and Edith Bunkers, a third of them black. - Shana Alexander
12. The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander
13. The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture. - Shana Alexander
14. Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Shana Alexander
15. Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. Terpsichore was condemned to the chimney corner, and there she languished until the early 1930s, when Lincoln Kirstein, founding father of the New York City Ballet, stole Balanchine from Europe in the manner of Prometheus stealing fire. - Shana Alexander
16. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. - Shana Alexander
17. What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too. - Shana Alexander
18. When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect. - Shana Alexander
19. When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. - Shana Alexander
