106 Quotes by Alexandra Petri

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

If you're doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that's a lot of fun, when you get down to it.

Obama isn't funny.

Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.