M.K. Alexander Quotes

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

My plan was never to be an actor like my father...

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

I find OOP technically unsound.

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

I think the future is intrinsically linked with our universal human problems. In fact, it's these very problems, and how we deal with them, which will determine our future.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

I am surprised by what people expect of me.

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, "Tough."

I'm blessed with very fast memorization skills, so I don't have to read it too far in advance.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

I'm not a method actress.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go to the movies.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

Focus on your work. Be the best you that you can be. Develop a thick skin and let things roll off your back. And keep a sense of humor!

People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.