#alexander

In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#brought #fall #home #named #our

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#don-quixote #imaginary #imagination #literature #real

I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in love with her.” “I am sorry to hear that,” he says. “It will make the challenge a great deal more difficult for you.” “We have been playing at this for more than a decade, when does it end?” “It ends when there is a victor. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#man-in-the-grey-suit #marco #love

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#entropy #anarchism

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. ↗

— Arrian

#alexander #almost #any #close #cruise

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#amazing #director #first #great #i

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#because #conquer #cried #eric #more

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#could #direct #else #great #had

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#admire #afar #afford #alexander #chanel

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt. ↗

— Mary Renault

#fire-from-heaven #mary-renault #age