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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
"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."
"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."
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
"Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set."
"I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup."
"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well."
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
"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."
"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
"If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus."
"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."
"When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious."
"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
"All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets."
"Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting."
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
"Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop."
"Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects."
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island."
"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve."
"I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them."
"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."
"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
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