Alexander McCall Smith
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We are seeing this pine beetle do things that have never been recorded before. They are attacking yo... MICHAEL PELCHAT ARUNDHATI ROY MEISTER ECKHART I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get,” he sai... DAVID EDDINGS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE death before dishonor , is that eventually, given enoug... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It was an uphill shot and you don't see the green. I spent a few minutes looking for my ball. Everyo... BRAD HOBBS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I've never had a bug problem before the pine beetle problem on my trees. JERRY PETERSON I saw a squirrel go in the big oak tree over there. That's his home. I'm worried that he won't be ab... ANNA PETERSON What was on the other side?"PHILIP K. DICK Look at all the life in this," she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear a... DAVID ALMOND Way before it was popular, he said that I could go far in this business. He kept saying I'd be presi... BOB KINNIEBREW CASSANDRA CLARE Nobody suspected that 12 months before ... that we could bring down dictatorship and have new electi... ALEJANDRO TOLEDO ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL If you hold on to something is bc you don't want lose it, yet I learned that you have to let it go w... DAVID MATEOS J.K. ROWLING But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ... MARK WALLACE JACK KEROUAC DEYTH BANGER PAULO COELHO JOHN LYDON HERMANN HESSE They can go months before they do anything, and I told the minister we don't have that luxury anymor... HERMAN BERFELO J.K. ROWLING HEINRICH HEINE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER They found a tree somewhere near you that tested positive. All the trees in a 1,900-foot radius are ... MARK FAGAN A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that sh... LAUREN F. WINNER NORTON JUSTER J.K. ROWLING ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL C. JOYBELL C. In the last few days we have had a different phenomenon, an avalanche of immigrants not seen before ... JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO MARGARET ATWOOD Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the... NANCY PICKARD Certain things like the shrubbery, large trees, have a value. And if a large tree is knocked down, t... ALAN WEBB It just seemed like an eternity before they got everything going. It was sad. By the time they had t... STEPHEN DORFF Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire.J.Z. BINGHAM A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the... HENRY KUTTNER Anything that hits the trees down the line will be foul anyway. DAVE STEVENS RAY BRADBURY HANYA YANAGIHARA JHUMPA LAHIRI JULIUS CAESAR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PETER DEMIANOVICH OUSPENSKY I am very confident and hopeful that he will be there beforeJAMES LYONS KAMAND KOJOURI He felt a lack of security. No place existed in all the world that could be called safe, and he knew... ALAN SILLITOE I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Ne... GREG KINNEAR NEIL GAIMAN I never once got to the point where I said it's time to move on and go somewhere else and thought it... KORDELL STEWART AMIE KAUFMAN PAULO COELHO GEORGE VECSEY CARSON MCCULLERS H.L. MENCKEN RAY BRADBURY CASSANDRA CLARE GENA SHOWALTER I had never heard anything like that before. EDDI LAMBERT Green heard her voice, murmuring,AMY LANE C.S. LEWIS HENRY JAMES TAMORA PIERCE MARK STRAND I love that neighborhood, ... We can walk the streets in the evening and my children can play outsid... ROBERT SNELL L.M. MONTGOMERY ALICE OSWALD NICHOLAS SPARKS DOUGLAS ADAMS A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an... DAN COLEN NALINI SINGH CASSANDRA CLARE TIM O'BRIEN SUZANNE COLLINS This statement of intent is not a commitment to do any of those things specifically, it's an indicat... BOB LINEHAM My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whis... DENNIS MURRAY ALLEN IVERSON When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi... GARY F EVANS... JOHN FLANAGAN DONALD MILLER I've never before given anybody anything without expecting anything in return. I always thought some... DENISE MOORE If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal... BART GORDON If we decide to do the repairs, I'm told the bridge will be closed at least two months. Then -- if w... JOE BRENNEMAN We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH J.K. ROWLING NICHOLAS SPARKS RAYMOND CHANDLER MATSHONA DHLIWAYO ALEXANDRE DUMAS You may have a civil action against a developer, but you never have the right to go in the middle of... JAMES LEAVITT KEN FOLLETT We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dro... HOLLY JOHNSON J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had... 
Cowards die many times before their deaths; 
…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug... 
Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you fee... 
You don't have to do this for me," Emma was saying, softly but earnestly, in a voice Cristina had ne... 
Don't keep forever on the public road,going only where others have gone, and following one after the... 
No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it mig... 
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always f... 
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... 
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leave... 
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. 
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees hav... 
Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a go... 
Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do b... 
For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, ... 
Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certai... 
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... 
It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were alwa... 
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother'... 
He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult... 
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much abo... 
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wo... 
I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new t... 
I write our names on the page.
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is ... 
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Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end ... 
And then there is that day when all around,
He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who... 
He is not a tame lion," said Tirian. "How should we know what he would do? We, who are murderers. Je... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who... 
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. 
Make them do as you want them to," she said.
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An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h... 
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There was a yell, but Magnus had already risen and closed the door before he could see Alec fall dow... 
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I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach t... 
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I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... 
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Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, ... 
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. 
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t... 
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a ... 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
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