M.K. Alexander Quotes

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

When one door closes, another one opens.

I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I am but an architectural composer.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.