Top 111 Alexander Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Alexander Quotes from famous people such as Kelly Rohrbach, Jesse James, Arrian, D. H. Lawrence, Neil Warnock, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payn

I’m very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman. But at the end of the day, if you want to do great work, you have to pay your dues.
Kelly Rohrbach
This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.
Jesse James
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
The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence
It’s good to see Graham Alexander back in the game. He was such a tremendous professional as a player so I know he’ll give management his best shot.
Neil Warnock
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
Addison Timlin
I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
Nelsan Ellis
I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
Neri Oxman
Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander’s tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.
James A. Moore
You’re only great if you win. I mean, Alexander wasn’t Alexander the Mediocre or Alexander the Average. He was Alexander the Great, and there’s a reason for it.
Shannon Sharpe
There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.
Taylor Swift
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
In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he’d had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of ‘Judaizing.’
Tom Reiss
When I started at Bloomingdale’s as a buyer, Alexander’s was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander’s had something that we had at Bloomingdale’s, we’d have to meet price. I didn’t really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.
Mickey Drexler
When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen offices in Germany and Austria.
Michael Korda
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters… but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world’s greatest living man – Alexander von Humboldt.
Bayard Taylor
I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
P. J. O’Rourke
He’d forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.
Jennifer Grant
Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
My favourite designer was Alexander McQueen. His lines were different every time.
Grigor Dimitrov
Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class.
Robert Lighthizer
I really love Celine. Obviously. Alexander Wang. Givenchy. Those are probably my main favorites. Dolce & Gabbana, too.
Emily Ratajkowski
Alexander Rusev is one of the most incredible things I’ve seen in my entire 30-year career. He’s a ferocious monster.
William Regal
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Alexander the Great
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth
I’m not really in touch with those ‘Seinfeld’ lads except Jason Alexander.
Wayne Knight
I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia. And there’s this brand called Hengst that makes a killer jumpsuit. I’m a sucker for those.
Addison Timlin
The new generation of designers, like Prabal Gurung and Alexander Wang, have hundreds of thousands following them on social media who will probably never be able to afford their dresses but still feel a loyalty to them. So when that designer writes a book or launches a beauty line, they might pick that up.
Eva Chen
I shop everywhere from Maxfield to antique stores. I love Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, and I love vintage. Golyester has the best selection of mint things and dead stock. I collect 1940s to 1970s platform shoes, and that’s where I got a few of my best ones.
Kat Von D
Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, t

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about – don’t waste your time looking for your own style.’ I wish I could remember who told me that, because I’d like to congraulate him. I’ve emulated all the old guys – Tennyson, Alexander Pope.
John Cooper Clarke
Lloyd Alexander’s tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they remain utterly timeless for me. I cannot recommend them enough.
James A. Moore
Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That’s not an exaggeration, by the way.
Steve Eisman
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III’s government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
Rosa Luxemburg
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan
It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that’s conjecture. It’s more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.
Jay Parini
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Joseph J. Ellis
Alexander Payne’s very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
Kathy Bates
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers
‘Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever’ was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and myself – all those times when each of us has decided that we’re just not going to get into trouble anymore. But it’s so hard to be good all of the time!
Judith Viorst
Alexander Nix has no interest in the Republicans or Democrats winning or losing.
Brittany Kaiser
I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.
Gia Coppola
Alexander Gustafsson, he’s the biggest fighter in Europe. I like him so much and I hope I’m gonna be the biggest in Europe next to him.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Every player is wired differently. Some players you know exactly where they’re headed, where they’re going and what they’re thinking. There are other guys wired differently. It allowed me to understand the personality of Alexander Ovechkin.
Barry Trotz
It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can’t get any better than that!
Kathy Bates
Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
I’m always in an Alexander Wang t-shirt or tank top and Acne jeans. I can just throw that on and be myself.
Freja Beha Erichsen
Even a moderniser like Alexander II – who emancipated the serfs in 1861 – had no intention of devolving real power.
Saul David
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
Oliver Stone
Innovation really is the life blood of our American economy… looking back at the stories of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers, you look at emergence to technology innovation and what it has done for our economy. We need to continue that.
Dan Lipinski
I like Alexander McQueen’s work a lot: he’s always pushing boundaries, and he’s rough around the edges.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
With Alexander’s cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Cathy Freeman