Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: August 24, 1948

Topics

GreaterChancesYourReadersWider

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

Andre Aciman

GoodHonestyGeniusEnoughHimCut

Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect to prosper. That idea was flat wrong. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

FinancialAmericaWrongGoEconomy

The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.

John T. Chambers

SuccessGoodLearnSuccessfulWell

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

Steve Clevenger

LoveDayCityUpStreetsBaltimore

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

Tony Shalhoub

PeopleSameNormalFilmWhoHopes

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Russell Banks

BestWritingApprenticeshipWriter

You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.

Jon Taffer

PersonalityMeSomeoneYouThree

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Johnny Knoxville

LoveAmazingLouisianaI Love

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Diogenes

ChildHandsAwayCupSawDrinking

I could totally see myself limping down the aisle when I'm 60, jumping off the top rope and breaking my hip. I could be a hilarious geriatric wrestler.

Dean Ambrose

MyselfDownTopRopeSeeJumping

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Bono

PowerDifferenceUpBeingBetween

I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.

Ashley Graham

GirlMeFeelFriendsRelationships

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