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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
"Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful."
"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties."
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
"All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers."
"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."
"I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals."
"It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!"
"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really."
"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
"Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin."
"Escapers were the cream of the crop."
"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation."
"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached."
"There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws."
"Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy."
"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
"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."
"Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction."
"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer."
"I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it."
"Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs."
"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."
"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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