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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin."
"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood."
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
"If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job."
"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that."
"I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today."
"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
"Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
"I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me."
"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
"But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them."
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
"Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought."
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
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