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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
"I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did."
"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
"I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long."
"There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double."
"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."
"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
"The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart."
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
"Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought."
"There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing."
"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."
"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon."
"You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament."
"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."
"The essence of love is kindness."
"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."
"No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
"Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years."
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