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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ."
"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
"Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it."
"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."
"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."
"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
"Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy."
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
"The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition."
"Intellect is not speaking and logicising, it is seeing and ascertaining."
"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."
"I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter."
"My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them."
"If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me."
"I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. 'Listen, ' she said, not unkindly, 'up until now I would say that ninety - nine percent of all the narcotics you have taken in your life you bought from guys you didn't know, in bathrooms or on street corners, something like that. Correct?'I nodded.'Well these guys could have been selling you salt or strychnine. They didn't care. They wanted your money. I don't care about your money, and, unlike your previous suppliers, I went to college to study just the right drugs to give to people like you in order to help you get better. So, bearing all that in mind ... Take the fucking drugs!'I took the drugs."
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
"The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are "in the soup of actual circumstances."
"I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more."
"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion."
"Like some of the rest of us, she never reflected how balefully her evil mood might operate; and that all things work for good in the end, will not cover those by whom come the offenses. Another night's rest, it is true, sent the evil mood to sleep again for a time, but did not exorcise it; for there are demons that go not out without prayer, and a bad temper is one of them--a demon as contemptible, mean-spirited, and unjust, as any in the peerage of hell--much petted, nevertheless, and excused, by us poor lunatics who are possessed by him."
"When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us."
"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
"A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities."
"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
"When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him."
"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
"OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us."
"Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him."
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