Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

Alexander McCall Smith

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• If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Will
  • Hollywood
  • I Can

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Fortune
  • Duration
  • Pays

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  

  Wally George
  • Different
  • Business
  • Kids

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Woman
  • Fly
  • Airport

• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Trees

• To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Thoughts
  • Prayer
  • Search

• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Trouble

• I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Language
  • Gujarati

• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• I'd love to play Wonder Woman.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.

  

  Taliesin
  • Earth
  • Universe

• I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • First
  • Step
  • Intuition

• What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Intuition