Top 100 Quotes About Shana
#1. 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
#2. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.
Shana Norris
#3. I am wed now. My husband is Zane. I'm sorry.
Shana Abe
#4. Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.
Shana Alexander
#5. I confess, as much as I enjoyed you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well."
"You truly have stopped tying to be charming."
"You're the most ravishing creature in the world, sweet Rue, even when hidden behind feathers and beads. How was that?
Shana Abe
#6. The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Shana Alexander
#7. I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.
Shana Alexander
#8. At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
Shana Alexander
#9. Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
Shana Alexander
#10. The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.
Shana Alexander
#11. Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.
Shana Alexander
#12. The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yours.
Let it be said that nothing was ever accomplished in haste at Iverson.
Shana Abe
#13. There's a word for this in English," he mused, still soft. "I can't recall it. I've made you a ... a fallen women. Yes?"
"Yes," I agreed, still smiling. "Thank you ever so much."
"It's been entirely my pleasure," he said in Romanian, and I turned my face into his sleeve and began to laugh.
Shana Abe
#14. I won't trouble you long," said Maricara. "No doubt you have all manner of pressing plans to consider. Spies to engage. Betrayals to enact. That sort of thing."
"Only on Sundays," Kim replied. "It's Tuesday. We're discussing stealing sweetmeats from small children today.
Shana Abe
#15. The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
Shana Alexander
#16. hand first. "Eight," he says. "Correct," our teacher says.
Shana Burg
#17. How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?
Shana Alexander
#18. He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart
fear for her, for what he actually wanted from her
and for himself, for what he might do.
Shana Abe
#19. When something scares you the most, that's when you know you should do it.
Shana Norris
#20. This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
Shana Alexander
#22. You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.
Shana Norris
#23. Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
Shana Alexander
#24. Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.
Shana Chartier
#25. I would have done anything. Don't you know that?"
"No."
"Then you haven't been paying close attention. I love you. Even more than gold and dreams, I love you. It seems insane you haven't realized it. You were the one who first informed me of it."
"I broke your leg," she said
Shana Abe
#26. The mark of a true crush ... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
Shana Alexander
#28. Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
Shana Alexander
#29. The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
Shana Alexander
#30. 1. Be honest. Don't complicate things.
2. Do what scares you the most.
3. Always do the thing that could get you arrested.
4. Don't be afraid of reality.
Shana Norris
#31. You called me," I whispered.
"And you came," Jesse Holms answered, a green-eyed glance back at me, a half smile that dissolved my bones. Then we were moving hand in hand down the rotting plank stairs.
Shana Abe
#32. 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
#33. When love fills one's heart, there should be no room for pride.
Shana Galen
#34. In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.
Shana Alexander
#35. I know the guy your parents don't like is exactly the kind of guy you think you want. But the idea of the bad boy is sometimes better than the reality of him.
Shana Norris
#36. There were seven of them. They smiled seven identical smiles, and the message behind each was identical, as well. It read: bloodbath.
Shana Abe
#37. Stains tell a story," Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. "My car is full of random stains.
Shana Norris
#38. I love you as you are," he whispered in my ear. "I want to make sure you know at least one person does.
Shana Norris
#39. Because you don't walk away from someone when things get tough, you find a way to stick it out and figure out what's gone wrong. - Zac Greeley, The Boyfriend Thief
Shana Norris
#40. Under the spell of the mighty Carpathians, with the breath of her creation blowing over her heart, Amalia's Gift splintered. She was given two futures: one dark, one bright, the same mortal lover pulling her two-handed into each.
Every step she took lured her closer to the dark.
Shana Abe
#41. Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
Shana Alexander
#42. As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.
Shana Alexander
#43. Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
Shana Chartier
#45. Sometimes the past is just better off staying there.
Shana Burton
#46. She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.
Shana Abe
#47. And nobody knows where her new dorm room is - or even if she has one." She shook her head. "It's a mystery.
Shana Muldoon Zappa
#48. Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Shana Alexander
#49. All that effort," he mused, "merely to avoid me. How gratifying.
Shana Abe
#50. Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
Shana Alexander
#51. I scowled at him as I shifted the gear into drive. "Do you love being difficult?" I asked.
"My mom says it's my specialty," he said with a grin.
Shana Norris
#52. 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
#53. I was Hannah Cohen. I wasn't perfect, but I was strong.
Shana Norris
#54. A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana Alexander
#55. It is those who are different that make the biggest difference in the world.
Shana Chartier
#56. If mom could live in her fantasy world this summer, maybe I could, too.
Shana Norris
#57. You snore."
"I don't!"
"Only a little. Very ladylike snores. I found them charming.
Shana Abe
#58. I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it.
-Kit to Rue
Shana Abe
#59. Katherine Bone is an author after my own heart! DUKE BY DAY, ROGUE BY NIGHT is a sexy, adventurous romp guaranteed to keep you reading into the wee hours of the night." Shana Galen, author of WHEN YOU GIVE A DUKE A DIAMOND
Katherine Bone
#60. Me, wincing a little as the effects of the slushie worked its way through him. So? Awesome, right? I'm a genius, you can
Shana Norris
#61. Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?
Shana Abe
#62. The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Shana Alexander
#63. You rely too much on yo rules, Hannah. You use them as a kind of crutch to hold yourself back from new experiences. You've let these rules control everything you do in your life.
Shana Norris
#64. Your Royal Grace,
Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you?
- Kimber
Shana Abe
#65. The metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.
Shana Alexander
#66. If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.
Shana Chartier
#67. I made a mental note to watch Daphne at all times. I would not let her become zombie chow.
Shana Festa
#68. Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.
Shana Alexander
#69. When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.
David Sharp
#70. I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.
Shana Abe
#71. You do speak." It came out as an accusation.
"When there's someone around worth speaking to.
Shana Abe
#72. The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
Shana Alexander
#74. Destiny, a game in which we're all players but few of us know the rules.
- Lord Terez Reiver
Shana Rae
#75. Nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.
Shana Abe
#76. We are on a sexual binge in this country ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.
Shana Alexander
#77. You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand."
He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar."
"Cutpurse."
"Runaway."
"Swindler!
"Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back.
"Bastard!"
"Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.
Shana Abe
#78. Something inside his chest unlocked
wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her breeze. He felt, strangely enough, staring into her yes, like he was going to weep.
Shana Abe
#79. I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.
Shana Abe
#80. Every time you publish a book, be prepared to eat a fresh slice of humble pie.
Shana James
#81. The one thing I had learned in my sixteen years was that you couldn't count on anyone to stick around. Opening yourself up only causes trouble in the end.
Shana Norris
#82. The best way to escape life's monotony is by exploring someone else's mind.
Shana Blueming
#83. Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...
Shana Alexander
#84. Because you don't just walk away from someone when things get tough," Zac said. "You find a way to stick it out and figure out what's gone wrong.
Shana Norris
#85. We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.
Shana Abe
#86. And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain.
Valerie Sherrard
#87. Don't steal anymore hearts," he told me. "You've already got mine.
Shana Norris
#88. The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
#89. I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana Alexander
#90. It wasn't an itch. It was a sickness. It was poison blazing through him, thinking of her all the time, watching her, touching her, wanting and wanting and wanting until his mind went black.
Shana Abe
#91. Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...
Shana Alexander
#92. Cassie you need to deside what's most important to you.
Shana Norris
#93. I love you. Even more than gold and dreams, I love you. It seems insane you haven't realize it. You were the one who first informed me of it.
Shana Abe
#94. That's because you have to listen to find out things about people. Looking only tells you a small part of the story.
Shana Norris
#95. Your Grace:
Others come. Prepare for Invasion.
- M.
Shana Abe
#96. There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.
Shana Abe
#97. The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
Shana Alexander
#98. Lia whispered, "I don't snore."
And the thief angled his gaze warm to hers, offering his lazy smile. "Aye, love, but if you did, I'd still treasure every one.
Shana Abe
#99. Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.
Shana Alexander
#100. You have to take a chance sometimes for the person you love. Sometimes you just know that a huge risk is worth it.
Shana Norris
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