M.K. Alexander Quotes

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

Science ... is organized common sense.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money

I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.