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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."
"THIS is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth."
"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
"The space where I write is in my head, I suppose."
"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
"Past tears are present strength."
"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."
"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
"Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy."
"One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God."
"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude."
"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."
"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
"Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer."
"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
"Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it."
"There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool."
"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."
"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."
"I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams."
"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
"I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out."
"The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery."
"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."
"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."
"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people."
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
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