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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
"The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning."
"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well."
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
"I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves."
"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."
"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."
"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him."
"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."
"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."
"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."
"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner."
"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
"He should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past."
"Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work."
"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."
"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."
"I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams."
"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
"Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."
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