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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player."
"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."
"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
"I have a temper on me that could hold back tides."
"I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated."
"You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages."
"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."
"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions."
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction."
"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."
"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
"He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier."
"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
"One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real."
"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner."
"It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific."
"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."
"A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes."
"I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder."
"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
"I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals."
"I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed."
"Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting."
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