What did Alexander McCall Smith mean by: There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists. - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe Copy
+ Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander McCall Smith, Appreciate, Self, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 24, 2023, Alexander McCall Smith, Bed, Rooms, Sex, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Stalking, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Age, Faces, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander McCall Smith, Block, Building, Manners, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ There is room in history for all of us. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander McCall Smith, Rooms, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Cake, Mma, Temptation, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Happiness, Ironic, Irony, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
