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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."
"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."
"I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing."
"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book."
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."
"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."
"All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal."
"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
"I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train."
"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."
"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."
"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."
"I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father."
"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
"My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it."
"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can."
"Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are."
"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."
"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it."
"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."
"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people."
"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."
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