Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveTechnologyMyselfPrideEdge

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

John Chrysostom

WorseThanSlanderCannibalism

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

Angie Martinez

WorkPeopleWeekendTryingGoKnow

I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

Anita Pallenberg

BusinessWorldFashionGucciNow

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.

Amy Sedaris

GoodMusicGirlMyselfHatePlay

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Stephen Gardiner

TodayHeightsPlansFloorAnonymity

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Tom Robbins

GodMeStartSaidLastWorking

BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.'

RM

SuccessGroupNeedSingleOffOur

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

Martina McBride

LoveEatingHusbandTryingHealthy

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

Michael Morpurgo

MotherTimeWomanMeBookReading

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Jaron Lanier

WisdomDecisionPeopleThoughtsYou

Looking ahead, we see the popularity of eSports exploding as competitive gaming becomes more mainstream and eSports leagues like 'Call of Duty' World League and Overwatch League driving greater engagement and viewership.

Bobby Kotick

WorldLookingDrivingGamingDuty

I love women to death.

Playboi Carti

LoveWomenDeathI Love

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