M.K. Alexander Quotes

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

I wear tinted visor not to trick other players, but so hot girls in stands don't see me looking at them

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Above all, art should be fun.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.