Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith
R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 August 1948
life land feet
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
thinking moments
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
mma cake temptation
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
creating order creative
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.
book perspective world
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
inspirational stars children
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
philosophy life-is life-philosophy
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
inspirational-life animal land
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
tiny earth persons
I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
taken night men
I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
dog lions silliness
Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.
people cautious chosen
Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.
fun having-fun
I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
sight attachment people
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.