M.K. Alexander Quotes

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

My friends always joke that I run on batteries.

The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

I know that I have the potential. And the opportunities. But I don't say: "I want to win the Australian Open in 2018." It doesn't work that way.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.

I actually read “Wonder Woman,” and here’s the thing about her: she’s more of a physical presence than anything else. You don’t get to really know her on the inside.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.