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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
"The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived."
"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."
"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."
"The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them."
"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."
"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
"Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory."
"Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true."
"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."
"There was something indomitable about Maria " like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said."
"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
"Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."
"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."
"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."
"Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them."
"The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's."
"The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy."
"There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly."
"Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."
"The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature."
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
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