106 Quotes by Alexandra Petri

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.

How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?

I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

Awkward is a state of being.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice of religion on campus is largely inaudible.

I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.