"The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the……" — Alexander McCall Smith
"The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari."
—
Alexander McCall Smith
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
83 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith has 83 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never…
-
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another,…
-
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
-
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just…
-
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the…
-
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to…
-
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all…
-
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
-
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup…
-
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was…
-
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the…
-
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others…
See all 83 quotes by Alexander McCall Smith »
More Astonishing Quotes
This quote is filed under Astonishing Quotes,
one of 290 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
-
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
— Jacqueline Bisset
-
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
-
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
— James Broughton
-
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
— Ernst Haeckel
-
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so…
— Carl Sagan
-
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
— William James
-
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
-
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
— Dannion Brinkley
-
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
See all 290 Astonishing Quotes »