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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
"There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly."
"I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion."
"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."
"My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable."
"There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty."
"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."
"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
"Time is only linear for engineers and referees."
"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
"Saints are sinners who kept on going."
"If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency."
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
"To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain."
"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
"Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise."
"Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections."
"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."
"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness."
"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
"After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock."
"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"
"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."
"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."
"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned."
"On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four - piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn't keep in touch. They're probably taxi drivers and accountants by now."
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