top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable."
"Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!"
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."
"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready."
"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."
"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."
"I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over."
"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
"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."
"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals."
"One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real."
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."
"I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long."
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."
"Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player."
"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
"In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young."
"The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt."
"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
"I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really."
bottom of page