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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves."
"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."
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
"I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges."
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
"The essence of love is kindness."
"The scraps of information she'd gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time " the unsaid."
"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
"I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me."
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."
"Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time."
"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
"I have lost confidence in myself."
"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."
"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."
"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
"The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them."
"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
"Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it."
"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
"We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask."
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."
"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."
"I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!"
"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
"In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."
"Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them."
"The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy."
"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
"We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second."
"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
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