On Personal Quotes

Would anybody quote me if they didn't know they were?

"He who makes time for fools becomes one."

~ A. Alexander

"Home is where the food is hot, the beer is cold, and the dogs are friendly."

~ A. Alexander

"I cook like my mother and fight like my father."

~ A. Alexander

"I can do magical things to a vagina. Magical."

~ A. Alexander

"Maybe the many religions in this world are simply different chapters of the same book."

~ A. Alexander

"People desperately cling to their fifteen minutes of fame for a lifetime."

~ A. Alexander

"Consumerism is a disease that people love to have."

~ A. Alexander

"The most widespread and least treated diseases in the modern world are consumerism and stupidity, and not necessarily in that order."

~ A. Alexander

"The soul of a city lives in the hearts of the people that call it theirs."

~ A. Alexander

"The beauty of literature is being obliterated by the oversimplification of the mind."

~ A. Alexander

"Despite the crazy that lives inside me, I think I function reasonably well as a regular human being."

~ A. Alexander

"A heavy burden becomes light as a feather when it is carried willingly."

~ A. Alexander

"Nothing withers the heart like love's disappointment."

~ A. Alexander

‎"Written letters are the windows to the soul when there are no eyes to behold."

~ A. Alexander

"We are a technologically spoiled race, fixated on instant-but-short-term gratification, and it will eventually be our undoing."

~ A. Alexander

"I lost track of the time of my life."

~ A. Alexander

"If we forever remain too afraid to burn with passion, how can we illuminate the shadows of our hearts?"

~ A. Alexander

"Passionate creativity connects people; it is a beautiful thing."

~ A. Alexander

"Whether they are perfect moments with imperfect people or imperfect moments with perfect people, the key word remains 'moments'. Cherish the ones you have, for only in memory can a moment become an eternity."

~ A. Alexander

"We are destined to always wear the same colour shirts and finish each others' sentences, no matter how hard we try to fight it. It was written in the sky with the glitter of God, in the things we know as stars. God is a troll and we are his victims. -.-"

~ A. Alexander

"Art and inspiration and writing are about sentimentality; we don't naturally create something important, we give meaning to that which we create."

~ A. Alexander

"Under the perpetually increasing cycle of obligation and expectation, even the mightiest tree falls."

~ A. Alexander

"The greatest trick Religion ever pulled is proving to the gullible that God does exist."

~ A. Alexander

"Life is only as hard as you make it. 'Life' is the name I gave to my penis."

~ A. Alexander

‎"In the land of the mimes, the man with the s- ss- sppffffff- spp-p-p-p-pppeech immmpedd-ddd-diment is k- k- kkk-king!"

~ A. Alexander

"Life is the adventure that you choose it to be. Walk your own path, draw your own map."

~ A. Alexander

"It's always a good idea to step out of the frame once in a while so you can see the bigger picture."

~ A. Alexander

"A clouded mind will look without seeing; a clear mind can see without looking."

~ A. Alexander

"Best to speak the truth and offend the ears of demons than to lie through your teeth and charm the wings off angels."

~ A. Alexander

"Writing a book about life as you're living it is like filling a leaky swimming pool one tea spoon at a time."

~ A. Alexander

"The secret to immortality is to create memories with others that they will never forget."

~ A. Alexander

"The roots of our own destruction are the seeds that we sow." / "Monsanto is sowing the seeds of humanity's destruction."

~ A. Alexander

"I care more about the fight itself than winning. And that is why I win."

~ A. Alexander

"I care more about hurting my opponent than getting hurt myself. And that is also why I win."

~ A. Alexander

"Sometimes when some people really piss me off, I just want to fill a tube-sock up with my s**t and smack them with it."

~ A. Alexander

"My conscience smells like unwashed hair soaked in bad decisions."

~ A. Alexander

"True love is not falling and looking around, desperately hoping someone will catch you.

True love is falling with your eyes closed and a smile on your face, because you know someone will."

~ A. Alexander

"I think that the words we write when we are alone because they are too personal, too painful, too truthful, too secret to say aloud to the people that inspired them, are the kind of words worth living for."

~ A. Alexander

"Reading is consensual mind-control."

~ A. Alexander

"Our love is a hermit crab that searches its' entire life for the perfect shell."

~ A. Alexander

"Dreams will remain only dreams, until you decide to do something about that."

~ A. Alexander

"Sometimes good is not good enough. When somebody pulls a weapon and has skilled back-up against you and you alone, you have to be better than good. Times like these , it is greatness or a hospital bed."

~ A. Alexander

"So there I was, walking in circles in a city made of squares."

~ A. Alexander

"Today's just one of those days that makes me want to scream like a nun in a whorehouse."

~ A. Alexander

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." 

~ Oprah Winfrey

"No. You get in life what you have the courage to achieve."

~ A. Alexander

"Some people are so dense that you can literally beat them to death with the physical weight of their own stupidity." 

~ A. Alexander

"Letting go of somebody we care for is the hardest thing that life can ask of us."

~ A. Alexander

"Public art projects are arguably the only art that TRULY matters. It affects the people directly as opposed to just asking them to bore themselves by politely staring at a hundred-year-old painting of a bored-looking man holding a bored-looking cat."

~ A. Alexander

"You know what I'm about to not say, so there's no need for me to not quite repeat myself." 

~ A. Alexander

"Inspiration: in·spi·ra·tion (ĭn'spə-rā'shən) 

n. 

'The inhalation of air into the lungs.' 

Inspiration. It keeps us alive."

~ A. Alexander

"In the face of adversity I will bend but not break. In the face of my enemy I may break but never bow."

~ A. Alexander

"If you want to show a girl just how much you truly love her, don't just buy her a bouquet; plant her a garden."

~ A. Alexander

"Bravery is not the way to overcome fear; with bravery you struggle in the grip of your demons. The way to overcome fear is indifference; with indifference, fear dissipates into nothing." 

~ A. Alexander

"In war there are no winners. There are only those who survive it, and those who do not."

~ A. Alexander

"In today's day and age, a zombie would starve to death before finding a decent meal."

~ A. Alexander

"Unrequited love is a muse that haunts our dreams even when we lie awake."

~ A. Alexander

"Everything in life must be done with or for a certain amount of pleasure, otherwise there is no point at all in doing it, nor in life itself."

~ A. Alexander

"Love inspires the artist in us all."

~ A. Alexander

"Maybe writers are simply loners that like to tell stories to their invisible friends, but seeing as talking to yourself incessantly is seen as loony behaviour, we have adapted to writing out conversations with ourselves on paper instead."

~ A. Alexander

"It is only the things that you never end up doing that you are certain to regret."

~ A. Alexander

"We all cast shadows, we can’t help it. The trick is to shine as bright as you can, so that the darkness diminishes and in time becomes insignificant."

~ A. Alexander

"The truth is self-evident, so feel free to question everything instead of blindly accepting, and the truth is bound to reveal itself to you."

~ A. Alexander

"The loudest silence is that of an unanswered question."

~ A. Alexander

"The greatest absence in one life, is the absence of another."

~ A. Alexander

"There's a fine line between love and insanity."

~ Ameera (@Amooshie)

"Bullshit. There is no line. Love IS insanity. Why else would you allow somebody to hold your heart, not knowing whether or not they will let it fall and shatter?? Love is Russian Roulette with an automatic weapon; the insane part is that we don't mind pulling the trigger."

~ A. Alexander

"Take action, because 'to do, or not to do' is the only question that we can answer for ourselves in a society that seeks to control how we think and act and judge and consume and conform"

~ A. Alexander

"The only difference between being eccentric and being insane is presentation."

~ A. Alexander

"They say a picture says a thousand words, but how many images does a song paint on the canvas of our imagination?"

~ A. Alexander

"It's a shame that in many people their personal system of belief is flawed from an empathetic standpoint; they desecrate what they don't understand, and worship what they think they do."

~ A. Alexander

"Life ain't RNB, it's Gangsta Rap. If you're scared, go to church."

~ Anton Els

"Life is a post-modern urban space opera performed by a Philharmonic Orchestra of deaf-mutes on Salvia whose performance is sporadically perforated by the sounds of novelty gunshots and dying mimes, high on nitrous oxide, crying out for help."

~ A. Alexander

"Writing is like taking a s**t; you can fuel it by taking accelerants, but if you try to force it, it just comes out a painful mess."

~ A. Alexander

"Walking behind people in the mall shuffling around like slow-motion zombies, I always have to murder the urge to murder."

~ A. Alexander

"You're out of your mind!"

~ My  university-assigned guidance counselor.

"Shhh, that's between me and my mind."

~ A. Alexander

"If I ever see somebody with no disability park in the disabled parking, I will break a kneecap. I'll make 'em f*****g EARN that spot."

~ A. Alexander

"Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people." 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great balls make s**t happen, average balls talk about how they should happen, and small balls make up excuses for not making s**t happen." 

~ A. Alexander

"I whisper her name under my breath, silently declaring my love for her for all the world to ignore."

~ A. Alexander

"Malicious words perforate my childhood memories."

~ A. Alexander

"In this place -hidden somewhere between layers of time and space and unquantifiable dimensions- exist formless object, unthought ideas, solid shadows, invisible monuments, and unwritten sentences.

It is a sanctuary in a chaotic world, silence in a storm of screams, my sanity keeping me afloat on an ocean of lunacy."

~ A. Alexander

"Sadness is the most potent of muses."

~ A. Alexander

"Sometimes when I have too much time on my hands and nothing on my mind I make the mistake of allowing my thoughts to wander and then before I know it I have once again come to the inevitable conclusion that in the grand scale of things I am nothing more than an insignificant speck existing for a mere second, a wink in the eyes geological time trying in vain to leave my mark on the world like a dog howling the proof of it's existence at the oblivious moon."

~ A. Alexander

"Character is what one is, Reputation is what one is thought to be by others.

The former matters, the latter does not."

~ A. Alexander

"If you can't reach the level of others, drag them down to yours!! Wait, what?? o.O"

~ A. Alexander

"I find that when it comes to writing, 'not being good enough' is only a personal perception of inadequacy."

~ A. Alexander

"When loving becomes a crime, we must all become criminals."

~ A. Alexander

"You're comparing apples to dog s**t buddy."

~ A. Alexander, during an argument in which someone tried to prove that Aikido is superior to Kudo *snigger* by way of comparison.

"Only fools quote fools. (So, don't quote me.)"

~ A. Alexander