Alex Quotes

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Everyone can use a little beauty.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.

I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.

The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.

I believe in God and immortality.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.