Alexander C. Irvine Quotes

Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.

Alexander C. Irvine

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• Mastery
• Gambit

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• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Prospect
  • Visual

• Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Good
  • Better
  • Down

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • For Her

• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Lost
  • Party
  • Voting

• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Life
  • Good
  • Past

• Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Remember
  • You

• The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli

• If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.

  

  Augusto Pinochet

• Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child. Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband? Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • People
  • Power

• You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

  

  Alfred Brendel

• I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa

• The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Children

• Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Philosophical

• Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Knowledge
  • Cowardice

• Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Past

• Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

  

  Franz von Papen
  • Fate

• Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Power
  • Mastery
  • Gambit