M.K. Alexander Quotes

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

With every door that closes a new one opens.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Order is heaven's first law.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.