M.K. Alexander Quotes

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.

Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.

Fox News' Megyn Kelly was the first to air the video on her program, 'The Kelly File.'

She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because 'the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.'

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Where music leads, I follow.

I wear sports clothes because I feel comfortable in them.

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

Ive always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

[George W.] Bush's presidency was one of the great nightmares of my life to date.

You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.