Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

Jimmy Iovine

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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Andrew Bird

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Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

Maurice Saatchi

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When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.

Stan Musial

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The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like 'Louie Louie.' I just aim toward that, and I think I've gotten better at it.

Stone Gossard

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My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.

RM

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Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors.

Rory O'Malley

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The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Ruth Porat

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All we're doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world and to all traditions and people.

Mohammad bin Salman

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I love polarizing people.

Josh Gad

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I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

Brian Greene

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And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

William Scranton

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