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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.""
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
"I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research."
"When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting."
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
"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."
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."
"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
"Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry."
"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."
"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued."
"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
"Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season."
"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 don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
"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."
"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."
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you."
"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."
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