Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YouWillNeedTellFictionAny

Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

Jim Harrison

LifeGreatFoodSexLustTheme

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati

LifePathIdentityMeWorldMy Life

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Jennifer Egan

ResilienceBelieveSelfishClarity

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy.

Amanda Foreman

AnniversaryWarCelebrateAmerican

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

Tori Amos

RoutineDownBecomeGetShut

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Louise Nurding

SonHandsKnowWantTeachersCount

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

ManPlumbingAssemblyIngenious

Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit.

Claude Monet

BeautifulMomentDaySunMeTide

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Brendan I. Koerner

GovernmentWarTruckWorldHim

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

Peter Marino

MyselfArchitectureBeginningYou

I think Hong Kong has always had this tradition of custom-made suits, which I've never done but love the idea of.

Nick Wooster

LoveThinkSuitsTraditionDone

I don't know that the United States is 'God's Country,' but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.

Rich Mullins

LifeGodLegacyBelieveStrongKnow

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