Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CreativeWorldSatisfactionCreating

Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'

Jimmy Fallon

TodayTimeDecisionSayingLearn

I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

Jenny McCarthy

PersonWorstTellDateHowAnybody

Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Robert Kiyosaki

TimeSchoolMindHigh SchoolBiology

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.

Steve Hanke

ControlRecognitionStartedGreece

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

Ron Kind

RiverSeriousRepairOldNeedOver

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

SocietyPresentWithoutIndividual

When I was playing Bishop, I would always walk on set thinking, 'This is my show; this is a show all about me.'

Mike Colter

WalkMeThinkingAlwaysPlayingSet

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

Dirk Benedict

DumbSpeakingInputAllowed

I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.

Douglas Tompkins

HurtWantSeeAnythingNaturalGet

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

Denis Leary

AgeTimeMeThinkGrowEnough

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Christian Lacroix

EleganceFollowTasteOrganizedWell

What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.

Courteney Cox

MyselfFeelWishBadPersonKind

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