M.K. Alexander Quotes

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

I think there is beauty in everything.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

The great fish eat the small.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

I am a melancholy type of person.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.

When you come to a new team, new world, new people, you feel a little bit uncomfortable. But my teammates, they are tremendous guys.

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Don't promise me forever, just love me day by day.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.