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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t."
"If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her."
"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."
"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
"I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens."
"Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that."
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
"We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period."
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
"When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy."
"How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God."
"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."
"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."
"How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, please?" returned Tangle."Thousands of years old," answered the lady."You don't look like it," said Tangle."Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!"
"Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions."
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."
"The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart."
"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."
"Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret " something ancient and precious."
"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it."
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
"I believe the era of the militant lady is back."
"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
"As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives."
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