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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years."
"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."
"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
"They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees."
"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."
"Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate."
"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
"Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall."
"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 didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way."
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
"I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff."
"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."
"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
"Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!"
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
"I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special."
"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."
"Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent."
"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."
"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."
"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
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