M.K. Alexander Quotes

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

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

All gardening is landscape painting.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

The basis of everything I do is the universe.

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.