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
At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
– Shana Alexander
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
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
– Shana Alexander
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
– Shana Alexander
I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
– Shana Alexander
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
– Shana Alexander
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
– Shana Alexander
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
– Shana Alexander
The mark of a true crush...is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
– Shana Alexander
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
– Shana Alexander
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
– Shana Alexander
The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.
– Shana Alexander
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
– Shana Alexander
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
When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.
– Shana Alexander
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
– Shana Alexander
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.