Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.Alexander McCall Smith
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
Ingrid Newkirk -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
Paloma Faith -
I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
Candice Olson -
I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
Taran Killam -
All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
Frances McDormand
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
Verite -
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz -
You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
Hanna Rosin -
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
Zadie Smith -
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie -
There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
Ian Lustick
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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
Oliver Tambo -
My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.
Lara Stone -
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
Warren Bennis -
Don't tell God they were only little globs of tissue. They were real live persons, being formed in their mother;s womb.
Jack Chick -
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
Larry Bird
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It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
Kaskade -
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
Jill Robinson -
A great love carries within it a mourning for love.
Edmond Jabes -
’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
Alexander McCall Smith