M.K. Alexander Quotes

We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

You can get insular with fashion.

I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.

I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

There can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

I am in control here, in the White House.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

In North America ice was smaller because in Russia we have big ice and this is small ice and it's a more physical game. Russia has more technicals and this has more speed and is a more physical game.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

I'm looking forward to playing against Sidney Crosby as much as I am looking forward to playing against all of the other players in the NHL. And there is no rivalry.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The highest art is artlessness.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.