M.K. > M.K.'s Quotes

“One man's subtle is another man's blatantly obvious."
(Oddly this does not seem to apply to women)”
― M.K. Alexander

“I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.”
― M.K. Alexander

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”
― William Longgood

“I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.”
― David Farland

“What if there existed a dark kingdom forged on a web of evil spells, with a conniving king plotting to infiltrate the dreams of children all over the world?”
― Bernice Fischer

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”
― Russell Banks

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.”
― WIDAD AKRAWI

“Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'

I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over”
― josh stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.”
― Harvey Milk

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
― Akira Kurosawa

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The world did not end with a bang, nor did it end with a whimper. It was more of a chomp. And a slurp.”
― J. Rudolph, The Complex

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“The words you write will outlive you. Choose them wisely.”
― Kira Hawke

“There is no right or wrong way to write a book. Follow the advice that best suits you.”
― Kira Hawke

“Coming face to face with mortality changes you. But it makes you wonder, why do we wait until something tragic happens before we finally try to realize our dreams. We always assume there will be time. Unfortunately, time can be cruel.”
― Carolyn Bennett, Coast to Coast Paranormal Investigation: The Journey Underneath

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Like smoking or drinking, writing should be a bad habit you cannot break.”
― M.K. Alexander

“A million dollars. Think about it for a moment. It’s not just a large number – it’s a symbol of everything we’ve been told to want in this world. Foreign cars with doors that swing up like magical wings. Houses with in-ground pools and wine cellars. Wines that are older than you, and foods with names that can’t be pronounced by mere mortals. A million dollars would open the kind of doors the general public doesn’t even know exist.”
― Ana Spoke, Shizzle, Inc

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“My Day Begins As Yours Ends!”
― CD Baxter

“To make an exceptional living with a career as a writer, you need multiple sources of writing income to sustain lifelong earnings. Never depend on only one origin of income as a novelist.”
― Chris Mentillo