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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."
"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
"I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather."
"I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom."
"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."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."
"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."
"I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there."
"Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island."
"So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower."
"It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right."
"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."
"I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first."
"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
"You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on."
"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."
"I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something."
"If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper."
"If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!"
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself."
"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
"Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form-spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved."
"The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not."
"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
"The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too."
"You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions* in about two minutes."
"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."
"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
"When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave."
"Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer."
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