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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long."
"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."
"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well."
"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
"I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it."
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
"I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals."
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."
"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
"How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?"
"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."
"If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession."
"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."
"I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly."
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