M.K. Alexander Quotes
Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.
It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.
You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.
Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.
I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.
How grateful I am that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations.
Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.
PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.
I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.