Kantor Quotes

Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all. ~ Melissa Kantor

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes. ~ Melissa Kantor

Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes. ~ Melissa Kantor

Nothing.
That's what happens to the stepmother in Cinderella.
Nothing. ~ Melissa Kantor

Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law. ~ Jodi Kantor

Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you. ~ Melissa Kantor

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up. ~ Jodi Kantor

Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady ... Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing. ~ Jodi Kantor

Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?' ~ Jodi Kantor

Why is it I can spend a dozen Friday nights staring at the peeling walls of my "room" without anyone in the family so much as poking a head down to see if I'm alive, while the one time I actually have plans (major plans, plans that necessitate extraordinary focus and massive preparation), my stepmother suddenly suggests we sing a duet of "Getting to Know You"? ~ Melissa Kantor

One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle. ~ Jodi Kantor

Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at the same time communicating, 'Hello there, acne-ridden dwarf. Promise me we'll meet again. ~ Melissa Kantor

But Americans have also exercised an additional option for decades: make fun of something. The Constitution does not guarantee Americans the right to satirize or parody, but it does guarantee freedom of expression and the right to bear arms. When those last two items are put together and sprinkled with a heavy dose of wit, Americans have created a form of humor that both ennobles and destroys its subject at the same time. ~ Michael Kantor

[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me. ~ Melissa Kantor

Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight. ~ Melissa Kantor

If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance. ~ Melissa Kantor

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. ~ Melissa Kantor

Why take the risk? Surely somebody would invent a crystal ball to tell you whether or not a relationship would work out before it started. ~ Melissa Kantor

Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince? ~ Melissa Kantor

Therefore, while social phobics and patients with AvPD both avoid out of fear, the social phobic's fears mainly arise in the clinical context of feeling, or actually being called upon to perform in ways ranging from giving a speech to urinating in a public washroom. In contrast the avoidant's fears generally arise in the context of interpersonal relationships, the main marker I look for in making the diagnosis of AvPD. ~ Martin Kantor

Looking back at that conversation, I can't help wondering: Did I know? Did I know what was coming, and did I think that as long as I wouldn't let Livvie say the words, they wouldn't be true? ~ Melissa Kantor

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. ~ Jodi Kantor

I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back. ~ Melissa Kantor

I am trying to write / a poem in which I am neither a monster nor a martyr ~ Kevin Kantor

There are some things you worry about. And then there are some things you don't worry about. You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about. ~ Melissa Kantor

What if in every breakup, the dumper gets to live happily ever after, while the dumpee gets a lifetime membership in the Bitter Book Club? ~ Melissa Kantor

For years, every moment I wasn't dancing was a moment I was waiting to dance. ~ Melissa Kantor

In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary. ~ Jodi Kantor

Nineteen months ago, he mourned, partridges were here. Nineteen months ago the open pine forest was compassionate. What rare concentrated tragedies will have occurred within another nineteen months - not here, for this place has bred a tragedy greater than any recorded in the Nation's past - but elsewhere, all over the South, through back roads and on wharves and in legislative rooms, in foundries which rust because the fires have gone out? ~ MacKinlay Kantor

And suddenly I started to cry. Serious sobs, the kind where your stomach hurts and you can't breathe and there's snot running down your face. I was crying so hard I couldn't even mute the sounds I was making, and Luke put his hand on my back and I thought about how everyone would think that I was crying because of Stacy's fucking speech and I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could. ~ Melissa Kantor

It was strange how we could talk so much and say so little. ~ Melissa Kantor

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.
… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt."
―Distancing, Kantor (p.115) ~ Kantor

There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth. ~ Melissa Kantor

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins. ~ Jodi Kantor

People never think things that are true are funny. ~ Melissa Kantor

There is nothing that makes the unbearable bearable. ~ Melissa Kantor

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism. ~ Jodi Kantor

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions! ~ Jodi Kantor

TEN BREAKUP COMMANDMENTS:
1. Move out
2. You cannot be friends
3. Do not process this break-up together
4. Do not bad mouth your ex to other people
5. Get rid of anything that reminds of him
6. Start and exercise regimen
7. Pursue an interest you could not have pursued while you and your ex were together
8. Take a vacation
9. Embrace Change
10. Go on a date ~ Melissa Kantor

I realize that," said Ms. Daniels. "Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough. ~ Melissa Kantor

I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns ... my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names. ~ Melissa Kantor

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances. ~ Jodi Kantor

And then I thought that it wasn't fair that at seventeen you could make choices that you might regret for the rest of your life because you really had no idea what you were doing and the stakes were just too high. ~ Melissa Kantor

You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper. ~ Melissa Kantor

After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size? ~ Melissa Kantor

Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after. ~ Melissa Kantor