M.K. Alexander Quotes

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Don't waste your sorrows

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.