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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
"My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer."
"I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow."
"We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets."
"They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees."
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme."
"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."
"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
"We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out."
"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same."
"The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things."
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
"Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can."
"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
"If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor."
"If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her."
"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."
"I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning."
"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."
"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."
"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
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