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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."
"He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier."
"I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions."
"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that."
"Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong."
"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."
"While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another."
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."
"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."
"During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards."
"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."
"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
"Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary."
"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."
"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner."
"If I have no children what would be the point of living."
"Consistency is very important when you're making films."
"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
"I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."
"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."
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