The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Everyone praises Harvard ‘for the students.’ But what makes Harvard’s students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Woodstock didn’t define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I’ll take the reptile every time. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don’t seem to know anything. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
