Alonzo King Quotes

#1. Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Alonzo King

#2. God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Alexander Waugh

#3. As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Helen Keller

#4. Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere.

Jean Harlow

#5. Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.

Martin Van Creveld

#6. Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

Alonzo King

#7. The fault-finder will find fault even in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

Alonzo King

#9. Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.

Huston Smith

#10. To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Alonzo King

#11. Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Alonzo King

#12. We have been taught to believe that "heaven" is above us, but I believe it is all around us. The material world is solid, the spirit world is ethereal (invisible

Estella Santiago

#13. Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

Alonzo King

#14. The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

Alonzo King

#15. The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist ... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

Alonzo King

#16. Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

Alonzo King

#17. Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.

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#18. What's interesting about you is you.

Alonzo King

#19. My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.

Alonzo King

#20. The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love.

Alonzo King

#21. Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

Keith O'Brien